On 27/12/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.com wrote:
Marc Riddell stated for the record:
Quite seriously, though, I believe one of the persistent flaws in Wikipedia that is preventing it from having a wider, more professional acceptance is its policy 'anyone can edit'.
A free encyclopedia that only credentialled experts could edit was tried: [[Nupedia]]. "Before it ceased operating, Nupedia produced 24 articles that completed its review process (three articles also existed in two versions of different lengths), and 74 more articles were in progress."
It will be interesting to see what [[Citizendium]] produces. They have a small but enthusiastic community of editors - and experts - and comparing the best of Wikipedia to the best of Citizendium will in my opinion be a valid comparison.
There's got to be more than one way to do this - even "within" wikipedia.org, the different language Wikipedias have very different community rules and feels to them.
- d.