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Larry Sanger

1968 - Today

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Lawrence Mark Sanger (; born July 16, 1968) is an American Internet project developer and philosopher who was the editor-in-chief of the online encyclopedia Nupedia and co-founded its successor Wikipedia along with Jimmy Wales. Sanger coined the name 'Wikipedia', and wrote many of Wikipedia's early guidelines, including the "Neutral point of view" and "Ignore all rules" policies. Sanger later worked on other encyclopedic projects, including Encyclopedia of Earth, Citizendium, and Everipedia, and advised the nonprofit American political encyclopedia Ballotpedia.While in college, Sanger developed an interest in using the Internet for educational purposes and joined the online encyclopedia Nupedia as editor-in-chief in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larry Sanger has received more than 2,646,415 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Larry Sanger is the 213th most popular inventor (down from 207th in 2019), the 3,147th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,091st in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 85

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  • 5.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Larry Sanger ranks 213 out of 354Before him are Eli Whitney, Helmut Gröttrup, Max Skladanowsky, Robert Cornelius, Henry Maudslay, and George de Mestral. After him are Gaston Glock, Émile Baudot, François Isaac de Rivaz, Josip Belušić, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, and Henrich Focke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Larry Sanger ranks 62Before him are Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh, Aidan Gillen, DJ BoBo, Carlos Marín, and Hervé Renard. After him are Stefan Effenberg, Adam McKay, Jovenel Moïse, Oleg Deripaska, Damon Albarn, and Thom Yorke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Sanger ranks 3,147 out of 18,182Before him are Leslie Lamport (1941), Clara Barton (1821), James W. Christy (1938), Cedric Gibbons (1893), John C. Mather (1946), and Alvin E. Roth (1951). After him are Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), Susan Sullivan (1942), Art Metrano (1936), Kamehameha V (1830), Barbara Hendricks (1948), and Richard Holbrooke (1941).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Larry Sanger ranks 50Before him are J. Presper Eckert (1919), Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834), Philo Farnsworth (1906), John Wesley Hyatt (1837), Eli Whitney (1765), and Robert Cornelius (1809). After him are Raymond Damadian (1936), Laurens Hammond (1895), Marcian Hoff (1937), Ruth Handler (1916), Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878), and Theodore Maiman (1927).

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