Hi Will,
On 1/22/09, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
I think Thomas there is some room for an encyclopedia which is written entirely by experts, and has no room for the input of commoners.
However with Wikipedia online, that room isn't the internet.
But when you buy a print encyclopedia like "Encyclopedia of Creepy Places to Visit..." you don't want to read along and then encounter "This spooky house
in DesMoines is where you're a fag fag fag six murders occurred."
Wikipedia has changed the internet, but most of the lives of most people are lived off line.
Will Johnson
Wow, this is the first time somebody has actually agreed with me on this! :-) No, I'm only kidding, but it's pleasant and refreshing to see that somebody supports the idea of getting experts actively involved in writing an encyclopedia.
I don't hate Britannica, but they could do with being more open, global, and diverse, like Citizendium. Citizendium is too bureaucratic for my taste, though, while I find Wikipedia too open; hence, I recently co-founded Epistemia (http://epistemia.org/).
—Thomas Larsen