Harikrishnan Lakshminarayanan
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Ohio State University (MA, PhD)
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While studying at college, Sanger developed an interest in using the Internet for educational purposes and joined the online encyclopedia Nupedia as editor-in-chief in 2000. Disappointed with the slow progress of Nupedia, Sanger proposed using a wiki to solicit and receive articles to put through Nupedia's peer-review process; this change led to the development and launch of Wikipedia in 2001. Sanger served as Wikipedia's community leader and was the only editorial employee of Wikipedia in its early stages but was laid off and left the project in 2002. Sanger's status as a co-founder of Wikipedia has been questioned by fellow co-founder Jimmy Wales but is generally accepted.
Since Sanger's departure from Wikipedia, he has been critical of the project, describing it in 2007 as being "broken beyond repair".<ref name="Iain Thomson" /> He has argued that despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility and accuracy due to a lack of respect for expertise and authority. Since 2020, he has criticized Wikipedia for what he perceives as a left-wing and liberal ideological bias in its articles.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Tel20210716">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref name=":4" />
In 2006, he founded Citizendium to compete with Wikipedia. In 2010, he stepped down as editor-in-chief. In 2020, he left Citizendium entirely. In 2017, he joined Everipedia as chief information officer (CTO). He resigned in 2019, to establish the Knowledge Standards Foundation and the encyclosphere. Sanger currently serves as the President and Executive Director of the Knowledge Standards Foundation.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref>
Sanger's other interests include a focus on philosophyTemplate:Sndin particular epistemology, early modern philosophy, and ethics. He taught philosophy at his alma mater, Ohio State University.
Early life and education
Lawrence Mark Sanger was born in Bellevue, Washington, on July 16, 1968.Template:Sfn His father Gerry was a marine biologist who studied seabirds and his mother raised the children.<ref name=":6" /><ref name="Chris Lydgate">Template:Cite magazine</ref> When he was seven years old, his family moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where he grew up.Template:Sfn<ref name="Marshall Poe"/> He was interested in philosophical topics at an early age and decided "to study philosophy and make it my life's work" at the age of 16.<ref name="Wade Roush" /><ref name="Alan_Boraas">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Schwartz2015" />
In high school, he participated in debate, which Sanger says influenced his views on neutrality due to these debates exposing him to different issues and arguments from both sides":<ref name="Schwartz2015" />
Sanger graduated from high school in 1986 and attended Reed College, majoring in philosophy.<ref name="Alan_Boraas" /> In college he became interested in the Internet and its potential as a publishing outlet.<ref name="Wade Roush">Template:Cite news</ref> Sanger set up a listserver as a medium for students and tutors to meet for tutoring and "to act as a forum for discussion of tutorials, tutorial methods, and the possibility and merits of a voluntary, free network of individual tutors and students finding each other via the Internet for education outside the traditional university setting".<ref name="Tutor-L">Template:Cite web</ref> He started and moderated a libertarian philosophy discussion list, the Association for Systematic Philosophy.<ref name="Marshall Poe" /><ref name="Schwartz2015" /> In 1994, Sanger wrote a manifesto for the discussion group:Template:Quote
Around 1994, Sanger met Jimmy Wales after subscribing to Wales' mailing list titled Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy (MDOP).<ref name="Schwartz2015">Template:Cite news</ref>
Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Reed in 1991, a Master of Arts from Ohio State University in 1995, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000.<ref name="Glyn Moody" /> Beginning in 1998, he and a friend ran a website called "Sanger and Shannon's Review of Y2K News Reports", a resource for people such as managers of computer systems who were concerned about the year 2000 problem.<ref name="Marshall Poe" />Template:Sfn