[WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

[Sage Ross]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:28 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I think this is in fact a market opportunity for a Metapedia.  Import the
> organizational / title trees of all the publically available freely licensed
> encyclopedias, merge, present readers with alternate views / options /
> approaches to a particular topic.  Optionally, display in parallel,
> Wikipedia next to Citizendum next to Otherpedia.  Click on a hyperlink in
> any and it works across all the panes.  Click on a focus tab for a
> particular pane and get the wider navigation / editing / etc tabs for that
> particular encyclopedia.

This is a wonderful idea!  It could even make sense to have Metapedia
as a Wikimedia project...an explicitly curatorial project that
attempts to sort different kinds of content and evaluate strengths and
weaknesses.  It could also serve as a place to have general
discussions about certain topics, without the necessity (as on
Wikipedia talk pages, nominally) of focusing on content improvement;
that's something that there's a need for, and something that causes
specific projects to suffer because of the tendency of readers to try
to start general discussions.

-Sage (User:Ragesoss)