That's opening a pretty serious can of worms for persons familiar with Wiki history. After several edit wars over Sanger and Wales's pages, Wales ultimately dec

That's opening a pretty serious can of worms for persons familiar with Wiki history. After several edit wars over Sanger and Wales's pages, Wales ultimately decreed that henceforth it was wiki-gospel that he was sole founder and that Sanger should never be referred to as a founder or co-founder of Wikipedia. With the blessing of Jimbo, WP admins regularly reverted anyone who attempted to modify Sanger's page to mention a role in founding Wikipedia. It seems that at some point since I stopped actively editing Wikipedia (several years ago now), this resolved with Sanger keeping "Wikipedia co-founder" on his WP page. Doesn't seem that there's an ongoing edit war anymore. Wales claims that Sanger was simply an early employee and does not warrant founder status. Sanger claims that Wales is a suit whose primary early function in WP was to provide funding and that he himself (Sanger) not only originated the idea, but did all of the work, and is entitled to the label "co-founder".