[WikiEN-l] Citizendium dead?

[Fred Bauder]

> Charles Matthews wrote:
>> Shrug. Sanger is no Wozniak. He did great things in the early days of
>> WP. Subsequently [...]
>
> Anthony wrote:
>> Meanwhile, they (especially Sanger) alienated a number of productive
>> individuals by just not being nice enough.  They closed down the
>> mailing
>> list just as it was starting to become heavily used.
>
> Note that Sanger's didn't magically become difficult to get along with
> after he left Wikipedia. He annoyed people in 2001 just as he does
> now. Wikis have a way of losing history, or at least making it hard to
> find, but you can find hints of discontent at pages like:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_drop-outs
>
> -- Tim Starling

Larry is doing a lot better controlling his nasty side on Citizendium
than he ever did on Wikipedia; there is a collegial atmosphere, more or
less. The problem is with the conception, not with his particular
behavior. He has not attracted the highly qualified academics he would
have to attract to make it a success. Third rate "experts" are not
significantly better editors than amateurs are. Serious academics are
knocking down big bucks and writing books, they don't piddle around on
obscure websites.

Fred Bauder