David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/4 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
The only regret I personally have about that one, is that Jimbo missed the one big opening at a knock-out punch vis a vis citizendium.
I don't. Citizendium can't harm Wikipedia, but Wikipedia could harm Citizendium. And that would be bad.
I think you vastly over-rate the influence wikipedia has on anything. Specifically what influence words by Jimbo have.
If pressed I would say that wikipedia does not gain from diminution of citizendium, even though it unfortunately won't even gain from having an effective loyal opposition in the form of citizendium. My judgment is that citizendium is vastly more dysfunctional than wikipedia, and as such largely irrelevant, even as a check and balance.
I do however in the larger scheme of things think that having a credible fork of the English wikipedia at this stage of its life-cycle wouldn't be counter-productive, ghod knows somebody needs to keep it honest. But I have very little hope of that happening in a form that is genuine, and not just a mocker.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen