"David Gerard" wrote
'Open content' itself is still unusual and remarkable in itself. Citizendium is working with great focus to get traction and credibility inside academia itself, which will further the reach of the concept.
Credibility is good. I think Wikipedia's oblique, zagging run in that direction has been very interesting, in fact. It is still not proven that doing the things that 'everyone' says are necessary for credibility in the academy is also sufficient.
Charles
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On 17/01/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"David Gerard" wrote
'Open content' itself is still unusual and remarkable in itself. Citizendium is working with great focus to get traction and credibility inside academia itself, which will further the reach of the concept.
Credibility is good. I think Wikipedia's oblique, zagging run in that direction has been very interesting, in fact. It is still not proven that doing the things that 'everyone' says are necessary for credibility in the academy is also sufficient.
Larry Sanger seems to be doing a lot of one-to-one outreach to academia. If he can work out a way for contribution to a GFDL encyclopedia to enhance an academic career, the growth in quality contributions to the open content pool should be fantastic.
- d.