[WikiEN-l] Citizendium dead?

[Eugene van der Pijll]

David Gerard schreef:
> Clay Shirky was right: CZ collapsed under the weight of its own bureaucracy:
> 
> http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/09/18/larry_sanger_citizendium_and_the_problem_of_expertise.php

Clay Shirky was wrong. He focussed on one part of the CZ hierarchy: the
experts, and the amount of overhead that trying to recognize expertise would
cause. But there was no overhead, because experts never came to CZ.

CZ created a special role for experts: Editors. The main task of Editors
is to guide articles in their area of expertise towards Approved status.
As you can see from the number of Approved articles (about 20 in the
last 12 months), there are almost no active Editors on CZ.

> Wikipedia, and its community and bureaucracy, sucks in oh so many
> ways. But it does in fact work and produce something people find
> useful.

Let's not forget that CZ also has produced content. And the single best
decision Larry made was to put a CC license on that content, so that
that content is still useful. As long as there are people writing for
CZ, WP (and therefore humankind :-) profits.

Eugene