On Feb 26, 2007, at 8:27 PM, T P wrote:
If you want a project where experts have more say than the rest, go to Citizendium.
This misunderstands something kinda fundamental.
The difference between Wikipedia and Citizendium is not that Citizendium wants to be respected by experts and Wikipedia doesn't. Both projects aim to write encyclopedia articles that experts can look at and say "Yeah, that's pretty good."
The difference is in approach. Citizendium believes that the best way to do this is to have only or primarily experts write the articles. Wikipedia believes that we can write good articles without having to worry about credential checking.
That doesn't mean that "what do the experts say" loses its validity as a test. It's just that our solution to the problem that our coverage of comics (not just webcomics, it should be noted) is crap is not to say "Oh, well let's just have Scott McCloud write all the articles." It's to say "OK, the experts say we blew this. Let's go back and fix it."
-Phil