[WikiEN-l] Announcing "Epistemia", a new wiki encyclopedia

[Alvaro García]

There is no widespread support. There are some people to which you can  
say something they don't agree with and back the argument up by saying  
it's on Wikipedia, and they will say "Anyone can edit Wikipedia".


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Alvaro

On 15-01-2009, at 22:18, "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Two questions:
>
> 1) What are you plans regarding incorporating content from other
> projects? There is a good chance that Wikipedia will soon switch to a
> license compatible with yours, so you could copy content across. Do
> you plan to do so, and to what extent?
>
> 2) Your "About" page says:
>
> "Other projects have attempted, and continue to attempt, to develop
> free Internet encyclopedias—Wikipedia, Citizendium, Conservapedia,
> Open-Site, Scholarpedia, Veropedia, and Wikinfo, to name a few—yet
> have failed to produce reliable content, to attract a broad, diverse,
> responsible, and democratic community, or to achieve widespread public
> support."
>
> I dispute that. Studies have shown that Wikipedia is as reliable as
> conventional encyclopaedias, the wide range of subjects covered in
> great depths shows we have a broad and diverse community, I haven't
> seen anything to suggest the Wikipedia community is irresponsible, and
> we don't try to be democratic so you're making a massive assumption
> there that democracy is the best way to run such a project. As for
> widespread public support, millions of dollars of donations over the
> past couple of months suggests we don't have a problem there. So which
> of those aspects are you suggesting Wikipedia has failed in?
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