[WikiEN-l] Citizendium charter ratified

[David Gerard]

On 24 September 2010 12:41, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> They need a USP (Sanger's involvement is not going to be at all relevant
> to that now). Well, they need a few things.


There was some forum discussion a while ago about using Semantic
MediaWiki for importing large databases in a more useful format than
plain text. First they need to get back to a mainline MediaWiki with
their customisations in an extension. (The previous "let's be
gratuitously different to Wikimedia" stance [*] has been changed -
e.g. Dan Nessett has been active on wikitech-l with regards to how to
test a MediaWiki instance).

But an encyclopedia with the semantic stuff actually being used -
that'd be *interesting*.


> But it prompts me to wonder
> what our USP is. "You have heard of us" doesn't count.


"We're the biggest and the best by a ridiculous degree" does, however.
Not first - Everything2 and h2g2 started earlier. I think it helps
that we can still honestly say "we're painfully aware of how and how
much we suck."


- d.