[WikiEN-l] Troubling news on Citizendium

[David Gerard]

On 16/01/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/16/07, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I doubt it. To me it loks like one person went looking for a fight and
> managed to find one. I still think "wait and see" is the best aproach
> to Citizendium.


Indeed. I haven't actually managed to write anything there *blush* but
it's an active project with a small but enthusiastic community working
on it and public access planned to be started this month.

Citizendium aims to outdo Wikipedia, but I wouldn't say it's an enemy
or competitor. There's got to be more than one way to do this "free
encyclopedia" thing. I fear in ten years time the proprietary general
encyclopedias will have insignificant market share, and if there's a
really good encyclopedia it's going to have to be Wikipedia or a fork
of it. But if it's a fork, at least there's a good one.

'Open content' itself is still unusual and remarkable in itself.
Citizendium is working with great focus to get traction and
credibility inside academia itself, which will further the reach of
the concept.

And the more open content in the world, and the more well-known open
content resources in the world, the better for us and everyone.


- d.