citizendium.org — Larry Sanger, first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, plans to fork the project. In Berlin he announced the start of Citizendium ? the citizen's compendium. Main differences: no anonymous editing, and experts will rule the project.
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helix400Sep 17, 2006
Excellent idea. Any system that has tried to tap the "wisdom of the crowds" philosophy has found that it is very popular. But the flaws always are that it:1) Attracts younger, less experienced people2) Is often innaccurate, immature, and riddled with problems.3) Drives away experts and more level headed individuals.Now, Wikipedia has done a decent job containing these flaws...but...it isn't enough. Here's hoping that this project succeeds and becomes a better model for tapping into the "wisdom of the crowds"
razeiSep 17, 2006
I don't quite understand; it's similair to Wikipedia, but editor controlled? If so, what's the point?
farm3rSep 17, 2006
What intersts me is the definition of "direction".
digjediSep 17, 2006
I'm surprised people are put off by the name of the site... and "Wikipedia" is not strange? The new site will have to grow to a certain size before anyone will use it (i.e. if not enough information available), but if it can grow large enough I believe it has a good chance. Probably a comment to be mod down, but seriously, no one I know uses Wikipedia as a knowledge source. Personally I've tried a couple times to do really research on it and find entries made by some 14 yr with 30% of the information wrong or a entries littered with strange comments "Billy was here". Good stuff.
jemersonSep 17, 2006
I'm quite serious in saying that clownpenis.fart would be a better name as far as marketing goes. They couldn't have made a worse name choice without randomly picking letters and numbers.
jemersonSep 17, 2006
Anyone, NASA or otherwise, who is using an encyclopedia as a reference should be sued. Encyclopedias might be a starting point for serious research, but they're not, and should never be considered, the actual destination.
toxicredmSep 17, 2006
And everyone thought Wikipedia was a great name the first time they saw it?