The plan for Citizendium worked? First time that's ever been asserted.
It worked in the sense a plan was developed, but the plan was indeed
a "behemoth" and a "straight-jacket", and was a key reason why the
project was so unsuccessful. Among the many things the plan failed to
consider, which would have been fore-front in any plan evolved by a
community, was the need to make sure the people named as the editors
actually were authorities in their subject. I was there from the
start of the project: I was one of the first "expert" editors, I was
one of the members of the first editorial board, The basic idea was
wonderful as a supplement to WP, but its failure has made it almost
impossible to try properly for a version of WP with expert peer-review
of the content.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:14 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 February 2013 11:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds like he want's to build a megaproject
in a huge go, no evolutionary
steps at all, and then see if anyone likes the behemoth of a constructed
reality straight-jacket.
Well, it worked for Citizendium. (Completely planned out about a year
in advance, from the Slashdot editorial.)
- d.
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