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Wikipedia is nothing if not a forum for interminable pissing matches, ... Wikipedia today has more layers of bureaucracy than the average Fortune 500 company and ... What "will kill Citizendium," he writes, is that, unlike Wikipedia, ...

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Because Sanger blew it--he made the requirement for "expert" status too severe.
There are quite a few real-world experts who have never been "published". And besides,
his definition of "published" is damn narrow. Meaning, academic journals and the like.
And they don't even say that anywhere onsite....
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QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Wed 29th July 2009, 7:29pm) *

Because Sanger blew it--he made the requirement for "expert" status too severe.
There are quite a few real-world experts who have never been "published". And besides,
his definition of "published" is damn narrow. Meaning, academic journals and the like.
And they don't even say that anywhere onsite....


I rushed over and started a Citizendium account soon after it launched and copied over a few articles (like Guadalcanal Campaign) from Wikipedia. For all the reasons mentioned here and a few others I didn't stay active with it.
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emesee   why be haten on Citizendium?  
Eva Destruction   why be haten on Citizendium? Because Larry was o...  
Nerd   and the sheer poor quality of their articles, gav...  
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michael   This may be an unpopular view but I do not consid...  
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