Dear all, I forwarded to Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, the thread of messages on Panopedia. I copy below his answer announcing the new project Digital Universe that may interest to some people in the list,
Jaime >Thanks for forwarding these mails about Panopedia. I'm seeing increasing >interest in having a wiki encyclopedia managed by experts. I know of >another academic general encyclopedia project starting, as well as >specialized encyclopedias about law and medicine. > >As co-founder of Wikipedia and the person who basically conceived of it and >got it started, however, I would direct people to get involved instead with >my new project Digital Universe, at http://www.digitaluniverse.net . I am >involved in the project as Director of Distributed Content Programs and have >been helping to design our own general wiki encyclopedia project. I have >been thinking very hard for over a year about how to make the Wikipedia >magic happen in a more academic context, and I think we have settled upon >the right formula. It will be part of a larger expert-managed information >resource, the Digital Universe. > >For more information, please see (and please distribute!) this blog post: >http://www.digitaluniverse.net/participate/blog/200601192.php > >If you would like to get involved, please go here: >http://www.digitaluniverse.net/create/content/ > >The encyclopedia project, to be managed by a large group of top-notch >scholars and scientists from a wide range of fields, should be starting >within a few months. A prototype, the Encyclopedia of Earth, is already >under development and has over 500 articles. > >--Larry Sanger >---------------- >Director of Distributed Content Programs, Digital Universe Foundation >100 Enterprise Way, Suite G370, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaluniverse.net/ --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
