If I'm understanding you correctly, you're talking about the lack of English speaking experts on topics about non-English speaking countries?
No, I'm talking about credentialed/degreed people (and their pretenders) who can't bear the idead of writing a thousand words on the Simpsons. The kind of person that finds Citizendium attractive is the same that thinks that the Galileo article must morally be longer than the Paris Hilton one. Wikipedia doesn't make that kind of distinction. In other words, they're just like a wiki version of Britannica, which the world doesn't want or need. No person of my generation (I'm 20) would ever choose the online version of Britannica over Wikipedia, even if it was free.
On Jan 23, 2008 2:07 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 23/01/2008, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
I'd agree with charles comments above, but let me rephrase my
observation.
Citizendium has, in my opinion, an infinitely larger potential for maintaining its current systemic bias, unlike wikipedia, which is
constantly
correcting this (see things such as User:llrwych's recent devotion to
the
history of Ethiopia and the like). The very nature of the cz project and
its
base of contributors demands a bias in the topics it gives substantial coverage to.
Start with intellectual and personal elitism, and you're going to have
that
bias show in your work, just like academia. Also just like academia,
this
bias doesn't negate the value of the work they do focus on, but you
still
have to acknowledge that there will always be holes in their coverage.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're talking about the lack of English speaking experts on topics about non-English speaking countries? I'm not sure how serious an issue that is - most academics anywhere in the world speak decent English, if they look for them, I'm sure they can find suitable experts of Ethiopian history, or whatever.
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