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Co-Founder. Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, using the concept and technology of a wiki pioneered in 1995 by

• redthrowaway 13y ago
  And, as with anything that involves Wikipedia, this is disputed. Jimbo hired Sanger to work on Nupedia before Wikipedia began. Wikipedia was later launched by that team. Sanger claims he co-founded it, while Jimbo claims he was an employee and not a founder. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17798723/#.Uggmx5LrxYw http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17798723/#.Uggmx5LrxYw
  • Bjoern 13y ago
    Probably the real question is, after leaving a project can you be downgraded to nothing from Co-Founder? Here is Sangers collection of "evidence". http://blog.larrysanger.org/role-in-wikipedia/my-role-in-wikipedia-links/ http://blog.larrysanger.org/role-in-wikipedia/my-role-in-wik... I find this paragraph most interesting. Wikipedia’s first three press releases (2002, 2003, and 2004), including two that I had nothing to do with, all credited me as founder. It was not until later, in 2004 that Jimmy Wales began omitting mention of my involvement at the start of Wikipedia to the press, and he didn’t start denying that I am co-founder until 2005 or 2006, just when Wikipedia began to enter the public eye.