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"Progressive Fork" of Wikipedia : Citizendium

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
17 years ago2,381 views

Interesting, any thoughts ?

"The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It will begin life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia. But we expect it to take on a life of its own and, perhaps, to become the flagship of a new set of responsibly-managed free knowledge projects. We will avoid calling it an "encyclopedia," because there will probably always be articles in the resource that have not been vouched for in any sense."

http://citizendium.org/

DPic [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I'm curious to see how it turns out. Wasn't this posted on slashdot a few days ago?

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Yes, this is old stuff.. actually Larry Sanger played a key role in the development of the “open source” encyclopedia.
His essay is here

http://www.citizendium.org/essay.html

DPic [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

yeah, faithful wikipedians weren't too happy about this whole citizendum

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Hmm ok. I read it on Ars today and I posted it here.

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