[WikiEN-l] Citizendium

[David Gerard]

On 19/09/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> 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.


This is also of interest in answering the perennial suggestion of
fixing edit wars by having article forks. It might stop the editors
from fighting (or it might not), but it's no way to produce something
good for the reader. IMO.


- d.