I'd seriously advocate against this. Citizendium is well known to have major, major problems. You may have heard about the Homeopathy situation, where not only was a dangerous article - it suggested homeopathy be used to treat life-threatening conditions - written by homeopaths, with nary a word of criticism that wasn't immediately "rebutted", put on the main page, but Larry Sanger ran around advocating for it.
If you want to set up a service for small wiki hosting, it may not be a bad idea, but I wouldn't under any circumstances do it just for Citizendium.
Actually, why not just offer Citizendium space on Wikia? Could that be done?
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
I'd seriously advocate against this. Citizendium is well known to have major, major problems. You may have heard about the Homeopathy situation, where not only was a dangerous article - it suggested homeopathy be used to treat life-threatening conditions - written by homeopaths, with nary a word of criticism that wasn't immediately "rebutted", put on the main page, but Larry Sanger ran around advocating for it.
If you want to set up a service for small wiki hosting, it may not be a bad idea, but I wouldn't under any circumstances do it just for Citizendium.
Mind you, the problems remain,... I don't know, I'm flying to America tomorrow, and have been running around for weeks trying to get stuff done, while the UK was under the grip of the worst weather in 50 years.
I think that Citizendium is a toxic asset, and Wikipedia almost certainly shouldn't step in. It'd be almost on the level of "Wikipedia! Now with added Conservapedia!"
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, why not just offer Citizendium space on Wikia? Could that be done?
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
I'd seriously advocate against this. Citizendium is well known to have major, major problems. You may have heard about the Homeopathy situation, where not only was a dangerous article - it suggested homeopathy be used to treat life-threatening conditions - written by homeopaths, with nary a word of criticism that wasn't immediately "rebutted", put on the main page, but Larry Sanger ran around advocating for it.
If you want to set up a service for small wiki hosting, it may not be a bad idea, but I wouldn't under any circumstances do it just for Citizendium.
On 14 December 2010 09:41, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, why not just offer Citizendium space on Wikia? Could that be done?
That's not really a discussion for this mailing list. I'm not sure CZ would accept such an offer even if it were made, though. Accepting help from Wikipedia would be bad enough for them, but doing something that would make money for Larry's nemesis' commercial venture would probably make their head's explode! (Although support for Larry does seem to have diminished now some harsh truths have come to light.)
On 14 December 2010 09:41, Adam Cuerden cuerden@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, why not just offer Citizendium space on Wikia? Could that be done?
WMF has no control over wikia in any way shape or form. Wikia is separate from us. now on the basis that wikia isn't picky about what it hosts it would probably take Citizendium but wikia is a commercial enterprise and increasing number of wiki communities are starting to feel that their adverts are getting overly intrusive.
In practice Citizendium now have enough cash in had that they should be able to solve their immediate hosting issues without needed the help of third parties.
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