2009/1/19 Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu>du>:
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).