User:Larry Sanger
See also my Wikipedia page.
Below I'll include links to things that should be on the metadiscussion wiki rather than on the main wiki. In particular, here are a few columns mainly on Wikipedia- and general 'pedia-related subjects:
- Columns in 30 minutes or less (June 8)
- Why a list of the senses of a word is not an encyclopedia article (June 10)
- Why I am suspicious of subpages (June 12)
- Accidental linking and hard-wired category schemes (June 14)
- Disambiguating parentheses (June 15)
- Peer review and the Wikipedia process (June 25)
- Estimating article numbers (June 28)
- The Perfect Stub Article (July 1)
- The case against subpages (July 1)
- List-o-links (July 5)
- Introducing the Nupedia Chalkboard (July 19)
- Britannica or Nupedia? The Future of Free Encyclopedias (Kuro5hin; July 25)
- An impending scalability problem (August 13)
- Some standards of excellence (August 28)
- Wikipedia as a first home for other wiki projects (August 31)
- What is an encyclopedia? (September 1)
- What Talk pages are not for (September 10)
- How to revise the policy pages (September 17)
- The epistemology of Wikipedia (September 19)
- Wikipedia is wide open. Why is it growing so fast? Why isn't it full of nonsense? (Kuro5hin; September 24)
- The art of Wikipedia weeding (September 26)
- Cutting each other a bit of slack (October 18)
- Open Content Encyclopedias in Education (Open Source Schools; October 20)
- Is Wikipedia an experiment in anarchy? (November 1)
- Moving commentary out of Wikipedia (November 2)
- Common words made into URLs (November 16)
- How a giant free encyclopedia might transform learning (Open Source Schools; November 18)
- Almanac-type information (November 21)
- Deferring to the experts (January 3, 2002)
- Wikipedia and why it matters (January 16, 2002) (Talk given at Stanford; see [1] to view the talk, including a Q&A that isn't transcribed here)
- Announcement about my involvement in Wikipedia and Nupedia (February 13, 2002)
- My resignation (March 1, 2002)
Please be aware that these are comments about Wikipedia, an encyclopedia project, rather than about WikiWikis in general. Indeed, the comments I make here might not hold at all for WikiWikis in general.