On 17/12/2007, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
Citizendium's small but not hurting for participants. They'll be fine.
That's not my point here. There is a certain number of people in this world who are going to be interested in actually "writing" an encyclopedia (as opposed to the people who are happy to edit, revise, or do other things to support the writing community).
Isn't one of the major lessons we've learned from the past six years of Wikipedia (seven now, I guess) that the number of people in the world interested in writing an encyclopedia is a lot bigger than we ever anticipated it being?
The one-author, one-page idea (from what I've heard knol is supposed to be) sounds like a disaster waiting to happen
Yes and no. It's workable, *if* there are other caveats which haven't been announced yet - some kind of weighting, structuring, etc. We shall see.