Yes it's nice to be the king.
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Larsen <larsen.thomas.h(a)gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 9:39 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0
Hi Will,
On 1/22/09, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
I think Thomas there is some room for an encyclopedia
which is written
entirely by experts, and has no room for the input of commoners.
However with Wikipedia online, that room isn't the internet.
But when you buy a print encyclopedia like "Encyclopedia of Creepy
Places
to
Visit..." you don't want to read along and then encounter "This
spooky house
in DesMoines is where you're a fag fag fag six murders occurred."
Wikipedia has changed the internet, but most of the lives of most
people
are
lived off line.
Will Johnson
Wow, this is the first time somebody has actually agreed with me on
this! :-) No, I'm only kidding, but it's pleasant and refreshing to
see that somebody supports the idea of getting experts actively
involved in writing an encyclopedia.
I don't hate Britannica, but they could do with being more open,
global, and diverse, like Citizendium. Citizendium is too bureaucratic
for my taste, though, while I find Wikipedia too open; hence, I
recently co-founded Epistemia (
http://epistemia.org/).
—Thomas Larsen
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