User:Larry Sanger

Hi there! Larry Sanger here. I'm the Editor-in-Chief of the Citizendium. I am also currently, and temporarily, serving as Chair of the Editorial Council. If you have a question, I'll try to answer, but you might want to try the Forums first if I don't answer instantly. I'm happy to report that I'm extremely busy! You can join my shameful backlog of e-mail at sanger <at> citizendium <dot> org.

You can read more about me at my personal home page. I have a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Ohio State and a passion for Irish traditional music. I was born in the Seattle area and grew up in Anchorage, Alaska.

I do not claim any sort of editorship other than being Editor-in-Chief, I'm afraid, not even in philosophy or the Internet. I am too long out of doing any serious research. (Although this is changing!)

I've worked on many articles, but I wrote significant parts (or all) of: John Doherty (fiddler), philosophy, Ship of Theseus problem, and epistemology. None are done yet!

There's a CZ article about me which I have not edited.  ;-)

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Larry Sanger Status    last updated January 22    [edit plan here] Get your own infobox! • Group Status ~ Plans ~ Short term plans 1. Finish drafting dispute resolution plan. 2. Start auto-newsletter. 3. Plan for a late January/February open house. 4. Consider hiring a part-time coder to take care of a long laundry list of small technical improvements. Longer-term plans 1. Draft the Citizendium Charter and get it accepted. 2. Spearhead workgroup list revision effort. 3. Find a replacement Editor-in-Chief. 4. Find a suitable academic home for CZ? ~ Roles and notes ~ Roles in the system 1. Editor-in-Chief 2. Editorial Personnel Administrator 3. Editorial Council, nonvoting member 4. Whipping Boy  ;-) Notes to self The problem isn't knowing what the meaning, or purpose, of life is. The problem is knowing which of the many attractive purposes are most important. Public notes : If you're interested in this new feature and plan, see CZ:Userinfo System. Discuss it on CZ talk:Userinfo System.   Philosophy Workgroup    Status    last updated Jan. 21    [edit plan here] ~ Plans ~ My short-term plans 1. Monitor recent changes in philosophy. My longer-term plans 1. Get philosophy editors started (finally!). 2. Review philosophy core articles. 3. Finish philosophy! (And other articles.) ~ Roles and Notes ~ My roles 1. author (for now) 2. unofficial workgroup organizer My notes Click edit above to start these notes Public notes: I hope to get the Philosophy Workgroup moving forward in an interesting new way, along with many other workgroups, in the coming months. Do less yet achieve more. Useful links for Userinfo System development edit Instructions: CZ:Userinfo System - CZ:Userinfo System Documentation Group and workgroup tables: CZ:Group Status (demo) - CZ:Anthropology Workgroup/Status (demo) Group table technical innards: Template:GroupInfoTable - Template:GroupInfoTableLine - Template:GroupInfoTableCell - Template:GroupInfoTableCellLinked - Template:WorkgroupInfoTableCell - Template:WorkgroupInfoTableCellLinked Individual table (userplan): User:Larry Sanger/Userplan (demo) - Template:Userplan-all - Template:UserplanAllToWorkgroup (used in the latter) - Template:Userplan-all-workgroup - Mediawiki:Common.css Group data and examples: Template:UserinfoSystemUsers (everybody listed) - Template:UserinfoSystemUsers/Anthropology (anthro workgroup members listed) - CZ:Userinfo System Workgroup Member Lists (list of workgroup user lists in the system) - Template:WorkgroupCodeToFullName (interchanges workgroup codes and "pretty names" of workgroups) Individual data examples and templates: Template:User/Larry Sanger (demo of individual data page for all of CZ work) - Template:User/Larry Sanger/Philosophy (demo of individual data page for a workgroup) - Template:User - Template:User/Template1 (general data) - Template:User/Template2 (workgroup data) Suggestion Box Got a suggestion for me personally? I mean, you can use the Forums to make any suggestion, but if there is some big sweeping change or project or idea that probably ain't gonna happen if I don't get behind it, please let me know at Suggestion Box. Old "to do done" list (now managed off-wiki using "Life Balance") Citizendium Organization CZ:Home | Workgroups | Personnel | Governance | Proposals | Recruitment | Contact | Donate | FAQ | Sitemap