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
"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and
conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work." - Abdul Kalam