[WikiEN-l] Citizendium trying out not being a fork of Wikipedia for a while

[Nina Stratton]

On 1/18/07, Matt R <matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> As per the subject, excerpts from:
>
>
> https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2007-January/000863.html
>
> Larry Sanger writes,
>
>   "After seeing the widespread support for the suggestion
> that we try *not* forking Wikipedia--i.e., that we delete all articles
> that
> are not marked "CZ Live"--I am about to instruct our tech team to go ahead
> and make the deletion...This experiment represents a reconception of our
> project's basic aim.  If the experiment goes well, no longer will we be
> calling
> ourselves a "fork of Wikipedia."  We will have, exclusively, our own
> identity
> and our own articles.  We will still, to be sure, follow much of the
> Wikipedia
> process--the aspects that work.  But no longer will we have as our central
> aim the cleaning up and approval of Wikipedia articles.  I think it might
> prove easier and more pleasant to build fresh new stables than to clean
> out
> the Augean Stables of Wikipedia."
>
> On the CZ forums, he writes,
>
> "One thing that I think I didn't realize sufficiently, when writing about
> this
> question a few months ago (at embarrassing length, before the pilot
> project was
> well under way), is that the very presence of fair-to-middling articles
> from WP
> is actually a strong disincentive for people to get to work. It's like
> this:
> when you get down to brass tacks, it's no fun to clean up the mediocre
> work of
> Wikipedians.  It might be a hell of a lot more fun to start over from
> scratch."
> (http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,431.0.html)
>
> -- Matt
>
> Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto
> Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________
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Well I am just so...he is...well...this just makes me so...hmph, pfft.
-- 
Sincerely,

Nina
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