On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:24 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/4 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
The only regret I personally have about that one, is that Jimbo missed the one big opening at a knock-out punch vis a vis citizendium.
I don't. Citizendium can't harm Wikipedia, but Wikipedia could harm Citizendium. And that would be bad.
On that note, is there a good summary anywhere of the forks and "similar" projects (i.e. encyclopedias) anywhere? Not so much a summary in a Wikipedia article, but more a critical look at the timescales, size, and quality of various spinter projects or attempts to do something different. The only ones I can remember at the moment are Citizendium, Veropedia, and Epistemia. Is Wikinfo something separate or a fork?
"Various other projects have since forked from Wikipedia for editorial reasons. Wikinfo does not require a neutral point of view and allows original research. New Wikipedia-inspired projects — such as Citizendium, Scholarpedia, Conservapedia, and Google's Knol — have been started to address perceived limitations of Wikipedia, such as its policies on peer review, original research, and commercial advertising."
OK, so the list is:
Citizendium (article) Veropedia (article) Epistemia (no article) Wikinfo (article deleted) Scholarpedia (article) Conservapedia (article) Knol (article)
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_encyclopedias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_encyclopedias
Wow, a really fascinating category here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knowledge_markets
"Knowledge markets provide means and venue for discovering and sharing knowledge resources among individuals and organizations."
Article is interesting as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_market
Carcharoth