[WikiEN-l] Citizendium hits 5000 articles

[Steven Walling]

In summary, I would say that not only is Citizendium not as good as
Wikipedia but it is probably not as well developed as Wikipedia at a similar
stage of its development. They have added 3,000 articles in their first
year.

I don't think it's fair to compare only one article. That's pretty much
blatant cherrypicking.

On Jan 23, 2008 10:58 AM, Keith Old <keithold at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2008 5:51 AM, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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> Folks,
>
> There are 48 approved articles which are supposedly the creme de la creme.
>
> They are here.
>
> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Approved_Articles
>
> The Citizendium article on Australia for instance is skimpy and with a lot
> of red links.
>
> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Australia
>
> The Wikipedia article on Australia is a feature article.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
>
> In summary, I would say that not only is Citizendium not as good as
> Wikipedia but it is probably not as well developed as Wikipedia at a
> similar
> stage of its development. They have added 3,000 articles in their first
> year.
>
> Regards
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