What will kill Citizendium? Options Rating

[Nicholas Carr]

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, ...

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/09/...xpertfocuse.php

[Grep]

Is there any legal/licence reason why Citizendium experts should not simply transfer articles from Wikipedia that actually happen to be well-written and accurate?

This post has been edited by Grep:

[EricBarbour]

Is there any legal/licence reason why Citizendium experts should not simply transfer articles from Wikipedia that actually happen to be well-written and accurate?

Not a damn thing, as long as they conform to the GPL or CC license for a given article and any images associated. (You also notice the near-total lack of images on Citizendium. They could go to Flickr or somewhere else and find CC licensed or PD images.)

In fact, that would be the smart thing to do.

I would not be surprised to learn that Sanger is discouraging WP reuse, despite it being an easy way to get material for review and eventual publication. Perhaps because he hates being reminded of WP's greater success? Embarrassing?

[Cla68]

Is there any legal/licence reason why Citizendium experts should not simply transfer articles from Wikipedia that actually happen to be well-written and accurate?

Not a damn thing, as long as they conform to the GPL or CC license for a given article and any images associated. (You also notice the near-total lack of images on Citizendium. They could go to Flickr or somewhere else and find CC licensed or PD images.)

In fact, that would be the smart thing to do.

I would not be surprised to learn that Sanger is discouraging WP reuse, despite it being an easy way to get material for review and eventual publication. Perhaps because he hates being reminded of WP's greater success? Embarrassing?

Some time ago the Citizendium regulars had a vote and decided not to allow copies of Wikipedia articles. I'm still on the Citizendium mailing list so I remember reading about it.