{"id":239823,"date":"2026-06-27T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/wikipedia-co-founder-has-been-banned-from-editing-the-site"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:12:01","slug":"wikipedia-co-founder-has-been-banned-from-editing-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/wikipedia-co-founder-has-been-banned-from-editing-the-site","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Co-Founder Has Been Banned from Editing the Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wikipedia-co-founder-has-been-banned-from-editing-the-site.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to mention that Sanger had started the WikiProject Intellectual Diversity project to reinforce Wikipedia\u2019s original purpose, which was to provide knowledge neutrally and transparently, especially because, in later years, some people have thought that the site leans toward left-wing ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Sanger said that he feels more sorry for Wikipedia because he was trying to fix the site, but it was overrun by bias and censorship. He wrote about the whole thing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/larry-sanger-wikipedia-co-founder-banned?hide_intro_popup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Free Press<\/a>, but you can read it only if you are willing to pay the subscription fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s important to mention that Sanger had started the WikiProject Intellectual Diversity project to reinforce Wikipedia\u2019s original purpose, which was to provide knowledge neutrally and transparently, especially because, in later years, some people have thought that the site leans toward left-wing ideas. Sanger said that he feels more sorry for Wikipedia because he was trying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}