Larry Sanger

“ A third important reason is that I feel I simply cannot do a good job working only part-time. It seems like every time I sit down to do a little work on Wikipedia or Nupedia, I am now asking myself, "What's the use? I don't have any time to do anything of importance." If I can't do the job right, what's the point of doing it at all? ”

“ It's very important that you continue to edit each others' work, that you encourage in each other good habits, that you welcome new contributors, and that you praise good work when you see it. As for Nupedia, obviously, the only way it can be revived is if it either finds money to pay an editor-in-chief or perhaps an emeritus professor who is willing to volunteer. I am no longer going to pretend to be able to be editor-in-chief as a part-time volunteer--even if I had the desire and the spare time. ”

“ As you know, since the beginning of February, I've been working on Wikipedia and Nupedia as a part-time volunteer. I haven't been able to do nearly as much as I wish I could do, but job-hunting and money-making activities necessarily occupy a great deal of my time. Unfortunately, I do not expect to see, within the foreseeable future, any sort of compensation for the time and responsibility I've continued to hold in the projects. Now that I'm unemployed, I can ill afford to spend my free time this way. ”