We've been Slashdotted. This is good news! Most of you know what Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/) is, but for those of you who don't: I've heard they have something like 500,000 readers per day. These are mostly grumpy, geeky, very smart computer programmer types. Moreover, the tech press monitors Slashdot and gets many stories from there. Usually, after a Slashdotting, there is an absolute flood of traffic (called a Slashdotting) which can sometimes cause wimpy servers--not ours, I hope--to be unavailable.
Expect a flood of new people and traffic in the next week or two, and especially tomorrow. Why not be on hand to "meet and greet"? :^) --Larry http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/2151242 Citizendium After One Year Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 30, @05:21PM from the 3,200-articles dept. Education The Internet Larry Sanger writes "Citizendium, 'the Citizens' Compendium' - a free, non-profit, ad-free, wiki encyclopedia with real names and a role for experts - has just announced that it's celebrating the one-year anniversary of its wiki, an occasion for which I wrote a project report. Make up your own mind about whether 'we've made a very strong start and an amazing future likely lies ahead of us.' We have been the subject of a lot of misunderstanding, but we've still proven a lot, such as that a public-expert hybrid wiki is consistent with accelerating growth and leads to high quality, or that eliminating anonymity helps remove vandalism. Signs are good that we are starting into a serious growth spurt. Might the Web 2.0 umbrella be expanded to include real name requirements and roles for experts? It's looking that way." _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
