Co-Founder of Wikipedia, Now a Critic, Starts Spinoff With Academic Editors
By Brock Read
Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 18, 2006
“Can scholars build a better version of Wikipedia? Larry Sanger, a co-founder who has since become a critic of the open-source encyclopedia, intends to find out.”
“This week Mr. Sanger announced the creation of the Citizendium (http://citizendium.org/), an online, interactive encyclopedia that will be open to public contributors but guided by academic editors. The site aims to give academics more authorial control -- and a less combative environment -- than they find on Wikipedia, which affords all users the same editing privileges, whether they have any proven expertise or not. The Citizendium, whose name is derived from "citizen's compendium," will soon start a six-week pilot project to determine many of its basic rules and operating procedures.”
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