On 19 Dec 2005, at 18:22, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
First heard about it at http://news.com.com/Wikipedia+alternative+aims+to+be+PBS+of+the+Web/ 2100-1038_3-5999200.html
Looks like it's going to be a collection of lots of works with varying licenses, a good alternative to a collection of information from a bunch of people who have no business writing an encyclopedia.
Pity. If they had a compatible license, $10m of investment using free content could get somewhere useful. And producing free content.
It was less than 20 years ago when I was employed working on encyclopaedias with lower standards than wikipedia.
Anyway, in the interests of the 2006 quality drive, I deleted 1500 pages from my watchlist - quality by selectivity.
Justinc