On 8 April 2011 01:03, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
You should be careful what you wish for. It's not hard to make a 'viable competitor' encyclopedia that would be so corrupt and inaccurate it would make the Fox News network... look like a news network. And if it was glossy and facile enough, plenty of people would probably be dumb enough to use it.
One thing that should probably be considered is that from the competing POV wikipedia does 2 things.
1)It provides information to people on general interest topics (for broad values of general interest) 2)It provides a plece for people to write articles on general interest topics.
We've received both competition and attempts at competition in both cases
In case 1 competition comes from Britannica and the million and one aps for viewing wikipedia on your phone. In case 2 competition attempts include knol, citizendium and more successfully hoodong