On 11/02/07, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
It confirms my belief that Citizendium is having serious problems. In a Citizendium post announcing that they would no longer be forking Wikipedia, Larry Sanger claimed that they had 24 active contributors as I recall. That isn't very many and it seems that a couple of those are no longer active. Sanger's claims about micromanaging suggests that many of the senior people aren't contributing much. Twenty odd people aren't terribly many people for a project of Citizendium's claimed ambit.
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Larry Sanger has been talking about how Citizendium will be much better than Wikipedia. It hasn't gone live yet and I doubt that it will for some months. If it does, I am predicting that I will fall well short of Wikipedia in both quantity and quality.
I'd say that comparing it to English Wikipedia is not really fair - most other Wikipedias would lose out badly in such a comparison.
Instead, compare it to a new language Wikipedia. What's the typical ramping-up curve for those? Contributors over time, articles over time, word count over time.
- d.