[WikiEN-l] Citizendium hits 5000 articles

[Steven Walling]

Good idea!

On Jan 23, 2008 10:48 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23/01/2008, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I see the post didn't mention the 5,000th article in question.
> Citizendium
> > is one of the few big wikis where I haven't poked around and registered
> for
> > an account (actually, probably the only one). This makes me wonder if
> they
> > are living up to their goals. Is it 5,000 GA and/or FA quality articles,
> > like they profess they are going to build better than Wikipedia? Or is
> it
> > 5,000 total, with lots of schlock thrown in?
>
> We should go through those 5000 articles, and compare them to the
> corresponding Wikipedia articles. (It would be good if we can get an
> independent body to do a sample of them too.) We should try and make
> sure our articles on subjects covered by Citizendium are at least as
> good as theirs - call it friendly rivalry. ;)
>
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