[WikiEN-l] Citizendium

[Stephen Streater]

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.