# Larry Sanger ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-03-16 Larry Sanger.jpg|400]] American philosopher and internet project developer, co-founder of [[Wikipedia]] (2001) with [[Jimmy Wales]]. Sanger originally led Nupedia (a peer-reviewed free encyclopedia) and proposed using a wiki to accelerate content creation — that wiki became Wikipedia. Sanger departed Wikipedia in 2002 over disagreements about governance, editorial quality, and the lack of expert authority. He became one of Wikipedia's most prominent critics, arguing that its anti-elitism undermines reliability. He later founded Citizendium (2006), an expert-guided alternative, and the Knowledge Standards Foundation to promote decentralized knowledge sharing. His academic background is in philosophy (PhD, Ohio State), specializing in epistemology — which directly informed his views on knowledge quality and editorial standards in online encyclopedias. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Larry Sanger]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/book AND [[Larry Sanger]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Wikipedia]] - [[Jimmy Wales]] - [[Collective Intelligence]] ## References - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger