[Wikipedia-l] Who founded Wikipedia?

Tue Oct 5 04:01:10 UTC 2004

We should start cataloging these. How about [[Apocraphyl tales of
Wikipedia's history]]? :)

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)

On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:55:29 -0700, Michael Snow
<wikipedia at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Time for a little quiz.
> 
> Q. Who started Wikipedia?
> 
> a. Howard Rheingold
> b. Jimmy Wales
> c. Lyndon LaRouche
> d. Larry Sanger
> 
> If you answered c, you too could work on the student newspaper at Ohio
> State University! I guess the true nature of the Wikipedia cabal has
> been revealed. Seriously, you just can't make this stuff up:
> 
> http://www.thelantern.com/news/2004/10/04/Campus/Larouche.Pac.Group.Sings.Shouts.Argues.With.Bush.Supporters-740977.shtml?page=2
> 
> Now the Howard Rheingold mistake, made recently by the International
> Herald Tribune, I can vaguely understand. But this is so bizarre I can't
> even fathom how they came up with it. Not even the most diehard LaRouche
> activist has the imagination for this. I even spent some time googling
> to see if this claim was being made anywhere that they might have picked
> it up, and found nothing. Considering that Larry Sanger now teaches at
> Ohio State, the situation is even more surreal.
> 
> Save your breath when it comes to flaming these poor souls, though, I've
> already politely informed them of their mistake.
> 
> --Michael Snow
> 
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Andrew Lih
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