Who are Wiktionary's co-founders?

Wiktionary was co-founded by Daniel Alston, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

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Wiktionary

Q: What happened to Wiktionary's founders?

3 people who founded or worked at Wiktionary went on to start 21 other companies, including Daniel Alston (Wikiquote and Wikinews), Jimmy Wales (Bomis, Wikipedia and 14 more) and Larry Sanger (Wikipedia, Citizendium and Knowledge Standards Foundation).

Wiktionary was founded in 2002 by Daniel Alston, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

Wiktionary (US: WIK-shə-nerr-ee, UK: WIK-shə-nər-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including wor

Private Founded 2002

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Wiktionary founders & co-founders

Where its founders came from

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What happened to Wiktionary’s founders and alumni

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People who worked at or founded Wiktionary and went on to start their own companies.

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Daniel Alston

2 founded

Wikiquote 2003 Wikinews 2004

Jimmy Wales

16 founded

Bomis 1996 Wikipedia 2001 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee 2003 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2003 Wikibooks 2003 Wikiquote 2003 Wikia 2004 Fandom, Inc. 2004 Wikimedia Commons 2004 Community Central 2004 Wikinews 2004 Wikispecies 2004 Wikia Search 2008 Jimmy Wales Foundation 2015 WikiTribune 2017 Trustcafé 2023

Larry Sanger

3 founded

Wikipedia 2001 Citizendium 2006 Knowledge Standards Foundation