[Foundation-l] Citizendium, a new venture, will "fork" off from online encyclopedia Wikipedia

[Sabine Cretella]

Copying my answer to the com-com list also here:


Does it sound strange to you that at the beginning of this year I said 
to a friend of mine that my feeling told me that someone will take over 
the contents of Wikipedia and create a separate project. When I said 
this, I was thinking of a different "person", or better a company all of 
us know well. Ok, it is not them now, but  ...

I don't believe Citizendium will be able to take over Wikipedia, but you 
never know - it would definitely be much better to have scientists work 
on Wikipedia.

It is time to build the "the original" image of Wikipedia ... (remember 
the CocaCola/Pepsi Cola marketing campaigns?)  - I mean "Wikipedia" - 
the only original of all collaborative wikipedias (plus all the 
advantages must come over).

How's the German stable version thingie going? (That is something I 
would like to see on nap.wikipedia as well - for other reasons than on 
de - connected to "standard and not standard nap") - Somthing tells me 
that this feature together with the co-operation of scientists will be 
the solution.

Thanks, Sabine



Florence Devouard schrieb:
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> Date: 	Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:14:39 +0200
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> Citizendium, a new venture, will "fork" off from online encyclopedia
> Wikipedia, said Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia's founders. Sanger,
> dir.-collaborative projects for the Digital University Foundation,
> spoke last week at the Wizard of OS (Open Source) Conference in
> Berlin. Wikipedia is committed to anonymity; Citizendium will stress
> personal responsibility for content, pushing for higher quality, he
> said, noting that Wikipedia's anonymity draws troublemakers. On
> Citizendium, content will be reviewed by editors who, while
> self-selecting, will have to substantiate their expertise. If
> Wikipedia had been admitting its problems, Sanger said, "I would have
> been much less motivated to go on with Citizendium." Martin Haase, a
> Wikipedia board member in Germany, said Wikipedia is working on
> quality. Soon, the encyclopedia will have its own means of validation
> and some editorial control, he said. Citizendium and Wikipedia can
> coexist, Sanger said. His role in Wikipedia was called into question
> years ago by fellow Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, spurring Sanger to
> quit his position as "chief organizer" of Wikipedia. -- ME
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> LOAD-DATE: September 15, 2006
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