Larry Sanger

And he had his own requirements for sure.

It didn't all come from me.

Okay, so, and then the site just grew very quickly.

It blew up.

In the first year, we got 20,000 articles, and...

Yeah, I have to say, I was amazed, very sort of taken aback at this sort of success that sort of dropped in our lap.

I had no idea that it was going to be so successful.

And I can tell you also that one of the main reasons for the success is that we front-loaded the effort for a year beforehand collecting people who were already interested in

writing an encyclopedia those people are to be sort of thanked and congratulated as much as any like we didn't have to go out and find a bunch of early adopters we already had them I see yeah but from the onset there was always a commitment to neutrality which is a very difficult thing when it comes to writing an encyclopedia right how do you create a platform that can present information

Sure.

Yeah, how it can be manipulated can be manipulated in a lot of ways.

At any rate, the basic idea of neutrality really needs to be distinguished from objectivity.

So actually, let's start there because a lot of people don't understand the distinction.

And I want to get this out clearly.

So...

Objectivity is a feature of persons, of minds, right?

So a person is objective.

And what that means is their approach to a problem or question is unemotional.

It's not driven by emotion.

prejudging the situation.