[WikiEN-l] Citizendium hits 5000 articles

[Steven Walling]

I think we should just invite some journalist to do it.

On Jan 23, 2008 10:56 AM, Nick <heligolandwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> It would be nice to have a bot that goes through their article and our
> article on one subject, looking for different sources and references, that
> would be something useful for both sites, I think.
>
> Nick
>
> On 23/01/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 23/01/2008, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I see the post didn't mention the 5,000th article in question.
> > Citizendium
> > > is one of the few big wikis where I haven't poked around and
> registered
> > for
> > > an account (actually, probably the only one). This makes me wonder if
> > they
> > > are living up to their goals. Is it 5,000 GA and/or FA quality
> articles,
> > > like they profess they are going to build better than Wikipedia? Or is
> > it
> > > 5,000 total, with lots of schlock thrown in?
> >
> > We should go through those 5000 articles, and compare them to the
> > corresponding Wikipedia articles. (It would be good if we can get an
> > independent body to do a sample of them too.) We should try and make
> > sure our articles on subjects covered by Citizendium are at least as
> > good as theirs - call it friendly rivalry. ;)
> >
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