[WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/4/22 doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com>:
>   
>> You need to offer a writer something very different, if you are to
>> motivate him to write in the early stages when readership will be low.
>> Or indeed, you have to attract the type of writer who would be wholly
>> disinterested in writing for wikipedia.
>>     
> More - you need people who are actually disinterested, not embittered.
> Note how many Wikipedia Review regulars have managed to get banned
> from Citizendium as well as Wikipedia in record time. It's entirely
> unclear why they don't start their own wiki encyclopedia, and thus
> demonstrate our evil and worthlessness.
>
>
>   
It's perfectly clear why they don't:  They're waiting for someone else 
to pay for the bandwidth.  Since they would start from the premise that 
their ideas would be very popular, they realize that this would be too 
expensive. ;-)

Ec