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Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium.〔〔〔 〕 He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska.〔 From an early age he has been interested in philosophy.〔 Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000.〔 Most of his philosophical work has focused on epistemology, the theory of knowledge.〔 He has been involved with various online encyclopedia projects.〔 He is the former editor-in-chief of Nupedia,〔 〕 chief organizer (2001–02) of its successor, Wikipedia,〔 and founding editor-in-chief of Citizendium.〔 From his position at Nupedia, he assembled the process for article development.〔 Sanger proposed implementing a wiki, which led directly to the creation of Wikipedia.〔 Initially Wikipedia was a complementary project for Nupedia.〔 He was Wikipedia's early community leader〔 and established many of its original policies.〔 Sanger left Wikipedia in 2002, and has since been critical of the project.〔〔 He states that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility due to, among other things, a lack of respect for expertise.〔 In October 2006, Sanger started a somewhat similar encyclopedia to Wikipedia, Citizendium.〔 Sanger has taught philosophy at Ohio State University〔 and was an early strategist for the expert-authored ''Encyclopedia of Earth''.〔 He has worked on developing educational projects for individuals behind WatchKnowLearn.〔 He has designed a web-based reading program named Reading Bear which aims to teach children how to read,〔 and started a crowdsourcing project named Infobitt.〔 ==Early life and education== Sanger was born in Bellevue, Washington.〔 His father was a marine biologist and his mother cared for the children.〔 〕 When he was seven years old, the family moved to Anchorage, Alaska.〔 〕〔 At an early age, he was interested in philosophical topics.〔〔 〕 He graduated from high school in 1986 and went off to Reed College, majoring in philosophy.〔 In college he became interested in the Internet and its publishing abilities.〔 〕 He set up a listserver as a medium for students and tutors to meet up for "expert tutoring" and "to act as a forum for discussion of tutorials, tutorial methods, and the possibility and merits of a voluntary, free network of individual tutors and students finding each other via the Internet for education outside the traditional university setting."〔 〕 He started and moderated a philosophy discussion list, the Association for Systematic Philosophy.〔 〕 Sanger wrote in 1994 a manifesto for the discussion group:
Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Reed College in 1991, a Master of Arts from Ohio State University in 1995, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000.〔 〕 Beginning in 1998 he ran a website called "Sanger's Review of Y2K News Reports", a resource for those concerned about the year 2000 problem, such as managers of computer systems.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Larry Sanger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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