Though I've heard of experts being scared away by an "insular community."
On 12/27/06, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
It will be interesting to see what [[Citizendium]] produces. They have a small but enthusiastic community of editors - and experts - and comparing the best of Wikipedia to the best of Citizendium will in my opinion be a valid comparison.
IMHO those dudes are heading straight for political infighting on a scale that WP has never seen. Academics can be some of the lowest and dirtiest politickers around - one of the reasons I got out of it in fact. Ironically, WP could get some new contributors that way - when the "authors" with shorter CVs get stepped on by the "editors" with longer, uh, CVs, irrespective of technical merit, WP is going to start looking pretty appealing. Not to mention that CZ is basing their material on WP articles, so if you want to get something into CZ, writing it into an unforked WP article will be the easiest route.
Stan
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