David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/22 doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com:
You need to offer a writer something very different, if you are to motivate him to write in the early stages when readership will be low. Or indeed, you have to attract the type of writer who would be wholly disinterested in writing for wikipedia.
More - you need people who are actually disinterested, not embittered. Note how many Wikipedia Review regulars have managed to get banned from Citizendium as well as Wikipedia in record time. It's entirely unclear why they don't start their own wiki encyclopedia, and thus demonstrate our evil and worthlessness.
- d.
I suspect that most of such critics have reached the conclusion that a wiki is not a suitable way of creating an encyclopedia.
It does seem to me that most of this discussion is predicated on the assumption that Otherpedia.org will be a wiki and will be free-use. I strongly suspect that anything that starts from that basis will be too much like wikipedia to be anything more than a small-player in some niche.