Digital Universe a Wikipedia Alternative

Augustine J writes "A new alternative to Wikipedia called Digital Universe is the brainchild of, USWeb founder Joe Firmage and Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia's earliest creators. This new site differs from Wikipedia by inviting acknowledged experts in a range of subjects to review material contributed by the general public. "The vision of the Digital Universe is to essentially provide an ad-free alternative to the likes of AOL and Yahoo on the Internet," said Firmage. "Instead of building it through Web robots, we're building it through a web of experts at hundreds of institutions throughout the world.""

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Wikipedia not safe for children or schools

[Anonymous Coward]

There are some truly sick creatures that run wikipedia, so none of this is surprising.

Take the case of [[User:Fred Bauder]] - a top level wikipedia Bureaucrat on the site's powerful Arbitration Committee. Bauder states he is a "retired" attorney on his wiki-profile. What he doesn't tell you is that his retirement was forced by the Colorado Supreme Court in 1999 for soliciting prostitution from one of his clients.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?c ourt=co&vol=1999sc%5Csc0125a&invol=1

The Parents for the Online Safety of Children also exposes some serious issues regarding how Wikipedia puts pedophiles on a pedestal. Pretty serious stuff.

Re:I don't get it

[wannabgeek]

Like "It will be the Slashdot of the Information World." Of course what is meant by that?

That's easy. It means that resident expert will be beatles-beatles, and most of the articles will have dupes.

Re:I don't get it

[Anonymous Coward]

>>If u did some google search you would have found the following

Ya, but he didn't. That makes you his tool. His ... google-tool.