On 27/12/06, Sean Barrett <sean(a)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.