[WikiEN-l] Knowino

[Fred Bauder]

Knowino is a good project, folks.

Fred

> Hello folks!
>
> Most of you are probably familiar with Citizendium, the competitor to
> Wikipedia that Larry Sanger started back in 2006. Citizendium is now
> dying under the weight of a massive bureaucracy, which was landed upon
> the project either far too early or far too late in its development at
> a time when there were not enough users to support it. A cursory
> glance over the forums at http://forum.citizendium.org will reveal a
> great deal of bickering and quarrelling, and very little progress.
>
> Several months back, I decided to create a "fork" of Citizendium
> called "Knowino". (I guess I intended it more as a social than a
> technical fork—so far we've imported quite a few mathematics and
> physics articles from Citizendium, but my main aim has been to run the
> community in a less bureaucratic and top-down way than Citizendium.)
> You can find it on the Web at:
>
>    http://knowino.org
>
> Knowino is still very, very much in the development stage (one could
> argue that a wiki never really *leaves* that stage), ;-) but so far
> here are the main things that differentiate Knowino from Citizendium
> and/or Wikipedia:
>
>    * Anyone can contribute. Creating an account and signing in is
> recommended, but not mandatory. (Unlike Citizendium, where you have to
> create an account under your own real name.)
>
>    * Expert contributors are invited to review articles using Flagged
> Revisions. (Unlike Wikipedia. The process for selecting expert
> contributors still needs to be fleshed out a little.)
>
>    * Temporary content "forks" (splits) are used to facilitate dispute
> resolution. (Unlike both Wikipedia and Citizendium.)
>
>    * We allow multiple articles, written from different approaches, on
> individual topics. (Unlike both Wikipedia and Citizendium. I suppose
> we'll see how this turns out in the long run.)
>
> If you're interested, I encourage you to check out Knowino at
> http://knowino.org.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom.
>
>
> --
> Thomas Larsen
> http://basicprogramming.org
>
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