Suggested essays

Editing Ethical Management of the English Language Wikipedia/Suggested essays

The following are suggested essay subjects. What makes for a good essay subject in this project is something that is revealing concerning ethical management of the English language Wikipedia, but yet has no clear cut "answer". If it did, then we should not tease you by not simply giving you the answer. So, the first clue to writing an essay on any of these suggested topics is that there is no right answer.

Who founded Wikipedia?

Clues: (define "founded" and "wikipedia" and what counts as a "who"; ask what is more important: a general idea, a specific idea, implementing an idea, paying for the implementing of an idea, or something else? is the "real" father the one who one who raised you or your biological father or both?)

• Jimbo Wales,
• Larry Sanger,
• Bomis,
• Richard Stallman,
• Clifford Adams,
• Magnus Manske,
• Lee Daniel Crocker,
• Ward Cunningham,
• volunteers around the world.