On 17/12/2007, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111(a)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.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk