smartmobs.com — One of the two original creators of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, today announced that he will start his own project called Citizendium. Registered users will be able to edit as "authors" but there will also be "editors" who have more authority because of their background as specialists in a certain field.
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jbreseeSep 17, 2006
Once again, another entrepreneur who doesn't understand why his business worked. This will fail miserably, as did his previous version of EXACTLY THE SAME IDEA. www.digitaluniverse.net/Wikipedia works simply because of the "wisdom of crowds" principal. Yes there are flaws, but it work as well or better than managed encyclopedias. See www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html for more info. And wikipedia is vastly larger with longer more complete articles.
obkenobiSep 17, 2006Submitter
It sounds like something invented at the Steven Colbert show.
zip000Sep 17, 2006
It does roll of the tongue if you say it in a certain way...Cit-i-zendium.
nofxjunkeeSep 17, 2006
I wonder if user accounts will be forked as well. Anyone know?
kwekuboSep 18, 2006
Dupe of <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Co_founder_Forks_Wikipedia">http://digg.com/tech_news/Co_founder_Forks_Wikipedia</a>Some interesting comments on that page.
rinkjusticeSep 18, 2006
Do people really care about Citizendium? We have Wikipedia, let's continue to expand and improve it.
neoricenSep 18, 2006
See this will actually work because people editing it will know what they're talking about, it will have less information but the quality will be much higher