Thanks David. Yes, it's the same with any encyclopaedia, not just Wikipedia or CZ. Finding authors who can do good quality reliable articles. But what is the object here? Speedily filling up red-links or doing good quality articles with trusted authors? CZ doesn't approve anonymous IP edits, so at least you know it's written by one of their authors and there is at least some form of accountability. I guess it's down to personal preference though. Why bother reading a replicate article in CZ when most search engines will lead you first to the Wikipedia one anyway.
Meg
On 25/01/2008, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
That is supposed to be the point of "CZ-live". It means an article has not just been copied, but modified at least to some extent. But if a WP article is good, why should it not be expected that one in CZ will be somewhat similar? The point of free content is it can be reused. The goals of filling up all red links and getting only high-quality articles can't be optimized simultaneously. The main problem there is the same as the main problem as Wikipedia--not enough good people willing to do hard work on important subjects.
On Jan 23, 2008 5:40 PM, Meg Ireland megireland99@gmail.com wrote:
I like the concept of Citizendium, but I have questions about the exercise of allowing wholesale Wikipedia articles to be transferred across. It defeats the whole purpose of their goal of being "trusted" when its mirroring what's already available on Wikipedia. What's the point? There are only a handful of original articles that have been uploaded there that are in any shape or form different to the syntax and content of existing Wikipedia articles, and these are very few and far between.
I also have concerns that some authors there who transferred articles are claiming credit for them on their user page, when most of that content came from Wikipedia to begin with. It's no different than plagiarism found in school essays.
Don't get me wrong. I think Larry has done a great job so far but I have questions on the whole point of the project.
Meg
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