Citizendium: building a better Wikipedia

Vikingod · Feb 26, 2007, 01:44 PM

Source: ars technica
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When you're a cofounder of Wikipedia, what do you do for an encore? If you're Larry Sanger, the answer is simple: you build another Wikipedia. A better one.

This is Sanger's dream as he ramps up the Citizendium project, an ambitious undertaking that aims to reform the "immature" Wikipedia community and create a different sort of place, one where real-world accomplishments are rewarded and experts have a special role to play. Citizendium has as its goal nothing less than the creation of a comprehensive and dependable encyclopedia, the sort of place where readers can put their trust in approved articles and children can browse without stumbling upon, for instance, "Hybristophilia."

Feb 26, 2007, 01:44 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Citizendium: building a better Wikipedia Source: ars technica ___________ When you're a cofounder of Wikipedia, what do you do for an encore? If you're Larry Sanger, the answer is simple: you build another Wikipedia. A better one. This is Sanger's dream as he ramps up the Citizendium project, an ambitious undertaking that aims to reform the "immature" Wikipedia community and create a different sort of place, one where real-world accomplishments are rewarded and experts have a special role to play. Citizendium has as its goal nothing less than the creation of a comprehensive and dependable encyclopedia, the sort of place where readers can put their trust in approved articles and children can browse without stumbling upon, for instance, "Hybristophilia."