Why does Conservapedia come to mind :) -MuZemike
On 4/7/2011 7:03 PM, Ian Woollard wrote: > You should be careful what you wish for. It's not hard to make a > 'viable competitor' encyclopedia that would be so corrupt and > inaccurate it would make the Fox News network... look like a news > network. And if it was glossy and facile enough, plenty of people > would probably be dumb enough to use it. > > On 07/04/2011, 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. Wikipedia now changes at dinosaur pace and seems >> utterly unable to solve the problems it knows it has, let alone the >> ones it doesn't. If room to zip around it exists, something small >> enough to be nimble can find it. >> >> >> - d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
