[Foundation-l] Citizendium, a new venture, will "fork" off from online encyclopedia Wikipedia

[geni]

On 9/16/06, Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella at yahoo.it> wrote:
> Does it sound strange to you that at the beginning of this year I said
> to a friend of mine that my feeling told me that someone will take over
> the contents of Wikipedia and create a separate project. When I said
> this, I was thinking of a different "person", or better a company all of
> us know well. Ok, it is not them now, but  ...
>

Wikinfo did that quite a long time ago.


> I don't believe Citizendium will be able to take over Wikipedia, but you
> never know - it would definitely be much better to have scientists work
> on Wikipedia.
>

Err we do.

> It is time to build the "the original" image of Wikipedia ... (remember
> the CocaCola/Pepsi Cola marketing campaigns?)  - I mean "Wikipedia" -
> the only original of all collaborative wikipedias (plus all the
> advantages must come over).
>

An internet project and you are prepared to risk being seen as
backwards looking. Realisticaly I can't see any other project
atchiveing our critical mass for the time being.

-- 
geni