On 04/11/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
That said, I'm not sure I wouldn't just look stuff up on Wikipedia as usual. [...] What do others think of Veropedia? In particular, what do you think would make people want to look stuff up at Veropedia first?
I could be approaching this in entirely the wrong way, but I wasn't thinking of VP has a reading encyclopedia at all - yet. Right now it's just more of a repository for what we think is good, what we hope to improve, and what we want to be reviewed. I doubt we will ever provide any great competition to the Wikipedia juggernaut in terms of readership, contributors or information - and I don't think we plan to do that either. If some students can come to our article knowing that it has been reviewed and improved by experts - improvement that may have been lost or diluted on Wikipedia - then we've done what we set out to do. Or I'm completely wrong.