[WikiEN-l] Citizendium
Stephen Streater
sbstreater at mac.com
Sun Sep 17 06:48:34 UTC 2006
On 17 Sep 2006, at 04:30, gwern branwen wrote:
> On 9/16/06, Kim van der Linde <kim at kimvdlinde.com> wrote:
>> As an expert who has left Wikipedia more or less, I can give you
>> an answer:
>> 1. I would write there for Citizendium, not for Wikipedia.
>
> And judging from the current success of Sanger's past endeavours (I'm
> thinking of Digital Universe here), you would be wasting your time.
> Remember, "the good is the enemy of the best", or better yet, "worse
> is better".
The expression I heard was "the better is the enemy of the good".
In this case, the "better" solution Citizendium may never appear,
whereas the "good" solution of Wikipedia is flourishing.
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