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Title: Wikipedia co-founder seeks to start all over again - BRIAN BERGSTEIN Post by: Mark David on April 04, 2007, 11:48:42 AM In just six years, Wikipedia (www.Wikipedia.com) has mushroomed into one of the Web's most astonishing successes, with 1.7 million articles in English alone. The downside is that the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane. To Wikipedia fans, these blemishes are an unavoidable - and relatively small - price to pay for the dazzling breadth spawned by its "anyone can edit" open design. But Larry Sanger doesn't buy it. To Sanger - who was present at the creation of Wikipedia (in fact, call him a co-founder, although that, like many things within Wikipedia, is disputed) - its charms seem to outweigh its warts simply because it has no competition.
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