[WikiEN-l] Citizendium

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

Kim van der Linde wrote

> What is nicer than to 
> work with some experts in that field to create good quality articles. 

Before I even came to WP, in 2003, I had spent a year intensively (as it seemed at the time) editing another wiki (Sensei's Library, the go wiki). That has some special features, in particular that the centre of real expertise in the world is not at all anglophone. Still, although I edit there now, the experience left me with a distruct of quasi-wiki structures. (I even wrote a Meatball Wiki page about the set-up.) 

Basically in go you have a grade, and the editor with the lower grade should defer. But it turns out that this is too static a system to really be satisfactory: not enough hard editing goes on. That wiki is dominated, to this day, by thread-mode discussion, and has never made it to 'encyclopedic' as understood at WP. There is plenty of good stuff, but the whole place is _insufficiently_ ruthless in hacking it about. 

I do prefer WP, vexing though it may be. I bring this all up because if good manners were all there was to it, Sensei's Library would be a shining example. 

Charles

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