[WikiEN-l] Citizendium dead?

[Tim Starling]

Charles Matthews wrote:
> Shrug. Sanger is no Wozniak. He did great things in the early days of 
> WP. Subsequently [...]

Anthony wrote:
> Meanwhile, they (especially Sanger) alienated a number of productive
> individuals by just not being nice enough.  They closed down the mailing
> list just as it was starting to become heavily used.

Note that Sanger's didn't magically become difficult to get along with
after he left Wikipedia. He annoyed people in 2001 just as he does
now. Wikis have a way of losing history, or at least making it hard to
find, but you can find hints of discontent at pages like:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_drop-outs

-- Tim Starling