On 16/01/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/16/07, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
I doubt it. To me it loks like one person went looking for a fight and managed to find one. I still think "wait and see" is the best aproach to Citizendium.
Indeed. I haven't actually managed to write anything there *blush* but it's an active project with a small but enthusiastic community working on it and public access planned to be started this month.
Citizendium aims to outdo Wikipedia, but I wouldn't say it's an enemy or competitor. There's got to be more than one way to do this "free encyclopedia" thing. I fear in ten years time the proprietary general encyclopedias will have insignificant market share, and if there's a really good encyclopedia it's going to have to be Wikipedia or a fork of it. But if it's a fork, at least there's a good one.
'Open content' itself is still unusual and remarkable in itself. Citizendium is working with great focus to get traction and credibility inside academia itself, which will further the reach of the concept.
And the more open content in the world, and the more well-known open content resources in the world, the better for us and everyone.
- d.