Yes it's nice to be the king.
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Larsen <larsen.thoma...@gmail.com> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 9:39 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0 Hi Will, On 1/22/09, wjhon...@aol.com <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > I think Thomas there is some room for an encyclopedia which is written > entirely by experts, and has no room for the input of commoners. > > However with Wikipedia online, that room isn't the internet. > > But when you buy a print encyclopedia like "Encyclopedia of Creepy Places > to > Visit..." you don't want to read along and then encounter "This spooky house > > in DesMoines is where you're a fag fag fag six murders occurred." > > Wikipedia has changed the internet, but most of the lives of most people > are > lived off line. > > Will Johnson Wow, this is the first time somebody has actually agreed with me on this! :-) No, I'm only kidding, but it's pleasant and refreshing to see that somebody supports the idea of getting experts actively involved in writing an encyclopedia. I don't hate Britannica, but they could do with being more open, global, and diverse, like Citizendium. Citizendium is too bureaucratic for my taste, though, while I find Wikipedia too open; hence, I recently co-founded Epistemia (http://epistemia.org/). —Thomas Larsen _________________________ ______________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
