Post - Citizendium beta, new Wikipedia competitor, now live

-HAL- · March 27th, 2007

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When you're a cofounder of Wikipedia, what do you do for an encore? If you're Larry Sanger, the answer is simple: you build another Wikipedia. A better one.

This is Sanger's dream as he ramps up the Citizendium project, an ambitious undertaking that aims to reform the "immature" Wikipedia community and create a different sort of place, one where real-world accomplishments are rewarded and experts have a special role to play. Citizendium has as its goal nothing less than the creation of a comprehensive and dependable encyclopedia, the sort of place where readers can put their trust in approved articles and children can browse without stumbling upon, for instance, "Hybristophilia."

"Wikipedia has accomplished great things, but the world can do even better," Sanger said when he launched the pilot version of the "Citizen's Compendium" (the genesis of the name "Citizendium") on October 17, 2006. With experts leading the way, the new site would "improve upon Wikipedia's extremely useful, but often uneven work. The result will be not only enormous and free, but reliable."

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/citizendium.ars

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page
Really interesting project, I'm looking forward to seeing the progress of this one.
But I wonder how long it will take before this one gets "spammed down" as much as Wikipedia does...