[WikiEN-l] Citizendium

[Kim van der Linde]

stvrtg wrote:
> Or instead, we could try to keep up with growth by implementing some more
> advanced soft controls of our own. The idea of depending on others to
> develop better content and then hoping they provide their content in an
> exportable format is... not a good one.

To be honest, if (BIG IF) Citizendium is going to work and produces 
higher quality stuff at a sufficient fast rate, it will only need a 
study or two showing that Citizendium is higher quality/more reliable 
than Wikipedia to flip everything around. If Wikipedia has to rely on 
Citizendium for better quality GFDL texts than that they can produce 
themselves, it effectively proves that Wikipedia cannot do what it wants 
with its current editing paradigm.

Citizendium has one big advantage, they start from scratch with 
editorial control in place, and will get a different community, while if 
Wikipedia would like to implement something like that, it has a 
community that will revolt against that and has to find ways to overcome 
that.

Kim
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