David Alexander Russell wrote:
(especially since any decent stuff that it produces will be re-merged into Wikipedia, perhaps even by a bot)
Interesting idea. Suppose that some evolutionary biology experts write the citizendium entry on say evolution. I am pretty sure, it will be substantially different from our version (which has substantial sections just to deal with the continued stream of creationist POV-pushers). I can see how a bot driven replacement of the content is just going to result in either revert wars with the bot, or if that is blocked, editors that are going to leave the article alone (open for anyone to edit). But suppose, it gets accepted as a proper version. At wikipedia, everybody can edit it, so it is free game again for regular editors as well as POV-pushers. The latter have to be kept in check, either by editors reverting, or by full protecting the article. The latter is more likely, because as soon as citizendium updates their page, it gets replaced at Wikipedia by the bot, taking away any incentive to improve the content. So, as this is taking away the incentive for Wikipedia editors to improve the article, I suspect that there will be never a bot that is going to do this. Consequently, the articles at both sides will remain different, and than quality differences start to play a role. As soon as citizendium is perceived as qualitatively better and more stable, people will start looking there and at wikipedia second.
Kim