[Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

[Geoffrey Plourde]

I would say the biggest reason why Wikipedia is still top dog would probably be "anyone can edit" combined with timing.




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From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 9:01:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

On 1 July 2010 16:57, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Citizendium is perhaps most valuable for having
> showed us a path we should not follow--elaborate bureaucracy and
> expert editing--but  in a more positive sense did highlight the need
> for us to improve article quality.

Citizendium's bureaucracy and expert editing weren't the main reason
for its failure. The main reason was that Wikipedia already existed.
For all we know, Citizendium's approach may have been better than ours
(although personally I doubt it), but it wasn't sufficiently better
for people to switch from Wikipedia, which was already very
successful.

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