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{{quotebox|Wales started an Internet company called Bomis, a search engine and Web directory. He began hearing about the fledgling open source movement and wondered whether volunteers could create something besides software. So he recruited Larry Sanger, then an Ohio State University doctoral student in philosophy, whom he'd encountered on some listservs. He put Sanger on the Bomis payroll, and together they launched a free online encyclopedia called Nupedia.<ref>https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html?pg=3&topic=wiki&topic_set=</ref>}}
{{quotebox|Wales started an Internet company called Bomis, a search engine and Web directory. He began hearing about the fledgling open source movement and wondered whether volunteers could create something besides software. So he recruited Larry Sanger, then an Ohio State University doctoral student in philosophy, whom he'd encountered on some listservs. He put Sanger on the Bomis payroll, and together they launched a free online encyclopedia called Nupedia.<ref>https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/wiki.html?pg=3&topic=wiki&topic_set=</ref>}}
In February 2021, Larry Sanger openly condemned Wikipedia for its leftist bias. One prominent example he cited was the Wikipedia's [[socialism]] and [[communism]] articles having zero mention of the [[genocide]]s, [[forced labor]], and man-made [[famine]]s caused by socialist and communist regimes.<ref>https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/wikipedia-co-founder-launching-competitor-website-upset-about-pro-socialism</ref><ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wikipedia-bias-socialism-pages-whitewashed</ref>
==Criticism of Wikipedia's bias==
In May 2020, Larry Sanger made a post on his blog about Wikipedia's left wing bias. It opens with an image of the [[Uncyclopedia]] logo, which Sanger deems more appropriate for Wikipedia. The post mentions that Wikipedia's article on [[Barack Obama]] makes no mention of several scandals during his administration. Contrarily, Wikipedia's article on [[Donald Trump]] is rife with criticisms, and information on investigations and controversies involving Trump are nearly as long as information directly pertaining to his presidency.<ref>https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/</ref>
In February 2021, Larry Sanger openly condemned Wikipedia for its bias again. One prominent example he cited was the Wikipedia's [[socialism]] and [[communism]] articles having zero mention of the [[genocide]]s, [[forced labor]], and man-made [[famine]]s caused by socialist and communist regimes.<ref>https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/wikipedia-co-founder-launching-competitor-website-upset-about-pro-socialism</ref><ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wikipedia-bias-socialism-pages-whitewashed</ref>
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