Larry Sanger

Yeah.

And so he told me how they worked, how if somebody edits a page, another person can edit it and correct errors and so forth.

And they negotiate with each other.

The edits are all immediately visible to...

as if you were working on your own computer.

Actually, they were just as centralized as they are now.

It's just that there wasn't all of this massive infrastructure behind them.

Wikipedia, if they wanted to simply change their policies, could become just like they used to be.

It would be probably a little more of a mess, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing all the time.

Right.

So the Newpedia editors didn't really want to have anything to do with a wiki.

And so after about a week or so of just talking about it with them, we decided to launch Newpedia.

the newpedia wiki under its own uh name so i named it wikipedia um and you know jimmy wales uh got the domain name and just to be clear right jimmy was the um

The CEO of a company called Bomus and one of three partners, right?

There was a silent partner and then there was another friend of Jimmy's called Tim Schell.

He became a friend of mine when I was working there.

And he is another partner of Valmas.

So these guys are sort of like the institutional founders of Wikipedia.

But the person who actually got it started, that's me.

What's that?