On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> A commercial enterprise "a bit like a wiki or a blog" that's "a way to > crowdsource *high-quality* information". > http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng/3614099241.html

"co-founder of Wikipedia and many others". Indeed.

That job ad is so awesome I had to save it for posterity. Work as a programmer slash executive assistant, for free! Be available 24 hours a day at a moments notice! Weekends off? Forget it! Mediocre candidates need not apply! Work for the *gasp* co-founder of Wikipedia! Solid, solid gold.

A commercial enterprise "a bit like a wiki or a blog" that's "a way to crowdsource *high-quality* information". http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng/3614099241.html - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On 14 February 2013 15:15, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: I think you're being unduly harsh here. His track record speaks for itself. - d.

On 21 February 2013 11:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com> wrote: Well, it worked for Citizendium. (Completely planned out about a year in advance, from the Slashdot editorial.) - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

The plan for Citizendium worked? First time that's ever been asserted. It worked in the sense a plan was developed, but the plan was indeed a "behemoth" and a "straight-jacket", and was a key reason why the project was so unsuccessful. Among the many things the plan failed to consider, which would have been fore-front in any plan evolved by a community, was the need to make sure the people named as the editors actually were authorities in their subject. I was there from the start of the project: I was one of the first "expert" editors, I was one of the members of the first editorial board, The basic idea was wonderful as a supplement to WP, but its failure has made it almost impossible to try properly for a version of WP with expert peer-review of the content. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:14 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- David Goodman DGG at the enWP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

A commercial enterprise "a bit like a wiki or a blog" that's "a way to crowdsource *high-quality* information". http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng/3614099241.html

On 14 February 2013 13:51, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: Splash page up now: http://infobitt.com/

I know what he means though. The snarling nonsense we sometimes encounter on mailing lists or during editing disputes could fairly be characterized as "noise". The question is whether this project will be any better.