{"id":532,"date":"2006-09-16T21:22:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T03:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=532"},"modified":"2006-09-16T21:22:35","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T03:22:35","slug":"sanger_forks_wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"Sanger forks Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man who invented<\/a> Wikipedia now wants to bury it. Larry Sanger, the controversial online encyclopedia’s cofounder and leading apostate, announced<\/a> yesterday, at a conference in Berlin, that he is spearheading the launch of a competitor to Wikipedia called The Citizendium<\/a>. Sanger describes it as “an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance.”<\/p>\n

The Citizendium will begin as a “fork<\/a>” of Wikipedia, taking all of Wikipedia’s current articles and then editing them under a new model that differs substantially from the model used by what Sanger calls the “arguably dysfunctional” Wikipedia community. “First,” says Sanger, in explaining the primary differences, “the project will invite experts to serve as editors, who will be able to make content decisions in their areas of specialization, but otherwise working shoulder-to-shoulder with ordinary authors. Second, the project will require that contributors be logged in under their own real names, and work according to a community charter. Third, the project will halt and actually reverse some of the ‘feature creep’ that has developed in Wikipedia.”<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The project is being discussed<\/a> at Slashdot, with Sanger chiming in.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Wikipedia is a mirror, if a warped one, and whether noble or merely quixotic Sanger’s project is stirring some interesting reactions. At Techcrunch, Marshall Kirkpatrick scoffs<\/a> at the plan: “Does the world need a Wikipedia for stick-in-the-muds?\u201d W.A. Gerrard, of StrayPackets, fires back<\/a>: “If an attempt to craft a wiki that strives for accuracy, even via a flawed model, is considered something for ‘stick-in-the-muds,’ then it\u2019s apparent that many of Wikipedia\u2019s supporters value the dynamics of its community more than the credibility of the product they deliver.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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