On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:26, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > Larry Sanger started Citizendium with a detailed plan for precisely > how it would work, which he detailed in a Slashdot article in 2005 and > kept firmly to. This produced the weird phenomenon where he treated > user suggestions like they were *threats*. I just read a Paul Graham > article which contains a line summing up the problem here: > > If you want a recipe for a startup that's going to die, here it > is: a couple of founders who have some great idea they know everyone > is going to love, and that's what they're going to build, no matter > what. > > Knowino (and Argopedia, and the survivors of Citizendium, and everyone > in fact) needs to look at this and see what they can do. Is there room > in the encyclopedia game? I sure hope so. How do you beat Wikipedia? > Work like a startup. > One of the key skills that Jimbo brought to Wikipedia was knowing when to be hands on, and when not. If you look through the early mailing lists -- not just the very early ones, but the first few years -- that's the thing that shines through again and again. If I had to point to one issue that made Wikipedia successful it was this ability to steer without micromanaging.
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