Kim van der Linde wrote
To be honest, if (BIG IF) Citizendium is going to work and produces higher quality stuff at a sufficient fast rate, it will only need a study or two showing that Citizendium is higher quality/more reliable than Wikipedia to flip everything around. If Wikipedia has to rely on Citizendium for better quality GFDL texts than that they can produce themselves, it effectively proves that Wikipedia cannot do what it wants with its current editing paradigm.
Frankly, I doubt it proves that. Everyone who argues solely in terms of 'star' content and ignores the infrastructural things makes a big if typical mistake. It is going to be a lot easier for WP to improve article content, in areas where it actually has some welcome competition, than it is going to be for those rivals to import into their site the necessary redirects and so on, to give the navigational smooth ride. (I think scholars out there are aware that in general Europeans before 1500 have far too many names; I know which site I put my money on to have the variants.)
Charles
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charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
It is going to be a lot easier for WP to improve article content, in areas where it actually has some welcome competition, than it is going to be for those rivals to import into their site the necessary redirects and so on, to give the navigational smooth ride.
Why should only Wikipedia be able to do that?
Kim
On 9/18/06, Kim van der Linde kim@kimvdlinde.com wrote:
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
It is going to be a lot easier for WP to improve article content, in areas where it actually has some welcome competition, than it is going to be for those rivals to import into their site the necessary redirects and so on, to give the navigational smooth ride.
Why should only Wikipedia be able to do that?
The advantage of numbers. If I'm looking for information on a random historical figure mentioned in a book I'm reading and I can't find it, I can search Google for alternate names, then add the appropriate redirect to Wikipedia. I can't add redirects to Britannica.