[WikiEN-l] Veropedia

[Riana]

On 04/11/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That said, I'm not sure I wouldn't just look stuff up on Wikipedia as
> usual. [...] What do others think of Veropedia? In particular, what do you
> think
> would make people want to look stuff up at Veropedia first?
>

I could be approaching this in entirely the wrong way, but I wasn't thinking
of VP has a reading encyclopedia at all - yet. Right now it's just more of a
repository for what we think is good, what we hope to improve, and what we
want to be reviewed. I doubt we will ever provide any great competition to
the Wikipedia juggernaut in terms of readership, contributors or information
- and I don't think we plan to do that either. If some students can come to
our article knowing that it has been reviewed and improved by experts -
improvement that may have been lost or diluted on Wikipedia - then we've
done what we set out to do.
Or I'm completely wrong.

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Riana

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