… either directly, to acknowledge the exceptional contribution of that collective movement,
or indirectly through its founder (Jimmy Wales) or co-founders (Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger).
No need to say more if you have any idea about what is and should be the Nobel Peace Prize and Wikipedia.
However, here is about the birth of Wikipedia as Jimmy Wales sees it…
but don’t forget that the Wikipedia movement succeeded because it was able to dig in the human and technical resources of its predecessor: Nupedia. Here is a
biography
of Larry Sanger which reflects his views about the creation of Wikipedia…
