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

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/1/17 Thomas Larsen <larsen.thomas.h at gmail.com>:
>>> 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".
>>
>> Have you looked at the donation statistics? And the page view
>> statistics? Plenty of people complain about Wikipedia, but far more
>> people use it and support it on a regular basis.
>
> I think Wikipedia has widespread public support. I, for one, have
> never said that Wikipedia has _not_ had widespread public support.

I know you haven't, but others have.

> Simply because a project has a lot of support, though, does not mean
> that it is by any means perfect or that it has no (serious!) flaws. It
> simply means there's nothing better available.

True.

> Epistemia aims to provide something better.

A noble aim, and I wish you luck. The problem you will face, I think,
is in being sufficiently better to encourage people to read your
encyclopaedia despite it being significantly less comprehensive than
Wikipedia. Without readers, you will find it very hard to attract
writers (you'll get some, but not enough to get the exponential growth
that Wikipedia saw for its first few years).