2009/1/19 Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu:
Many of the roughly 1.5 million Wikipedia articles that are near start or stub quality are at that level for good reason: Lack of public interest. However, if one were to start a new encyclopedia with the aim of improving them and could find a sizable number of people whose tolerance for incredibly boring topics was quite high, i'm sure Wikipedia would gladly accept the changes back. Its just that no one would read them.
Very true. However, the difference between Wikipedia and Citizendium in that respect is that we have decent articles on the topics that do have public interest, Citizendium doesn't. I don't know what their stub percentage is compared to ours, but their total number of good articles is so much lower that they can't afford even a fraction of our stub percentage. Stubs are of limited use to us, but they are of no use to Citizendium (which needs quality articles to attract readers).