On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
They've been going for over two years, if they
were going to have a
big recruitment push wouldn't they have done so by now? But really,
trying to recruit writers is the wrong way round, they need to recruit
readers, that's where the writers come from for exponential growth
(which they need if they are going to get anywhere). However, I can't
see how they can recruit readers until they have enough articles to be
useful - it's a catch-22 and that's why I don't think any similar
project will ever rival Wikipedia, simply because we got there first.
I don't disagree. I'm just saying we should think of Citizendium as
another (small) place for people to produce free content similar to
the kind Wikipedia produces, as a potential collaborator with
Wikipedia rather than a competitor (which isn't realistic, if it ever
was). That's a very real possibility once the license change happens.
-Sage (User:Ragesoss)