[WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

[Anthony]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/4/21 Chet Hoover <chet.hoover at yahoo.com>:
> > Citizendium can just hang on, and stick around, because it's far less
> about its success over Wikipedia than it is about an environment in which
> serious-minded people with the werewithal can write about important
> subjects.
>
> So it's all about the writing? I would have though the important thing
> was the reading. Wikipedia is all about spreading free knowledge - if
> no-one reads what you write, there is no point writing it.


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:58 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. This is a fallacy we see over and over: "Wikipedia would be so
> much better if you did X for the writers." Whereas that doesn't serve
> the readers, so is why we don't do it.

"If no one reads what you write, there is no point writing it."  Is that
something most Wikipedians would agree with?  There really ought to be a
Wikiversity course on this stuff.  I think it's essential reading for anyone
who wants to be a Wikipedian.