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Co-Founder Forks Wikipedia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brand-new-old-ideas dept.

tmk writes "Larry Sanger, first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, plans to fork the project. In Berlin he announced the start of Citizendium — the citizen's compendium. Main differences: no anonymous editing, and experts will rule the project. Members of Wikipedia were not amused."

16 of 382 comments (clear)

  1. no anonymous editing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hate Anonymous Cowards!

  2. Sprachen sie Deutsche? by rbanzai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wikipedia members were not amused... ... and neither were Slashdot readers who don't speak German!

    1. Re:Sprachen sie Deutsche? by owlnation · · Score: 4, Funny

      GrammatikNazi?

      Sie mussen neu hier sein, oder?

    2. Re:Sprachen sie Deutsche? by MustardMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!

      Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.

  3. Re:Hmm by SigILL · · Score: 3, Funny
    Too bad the second link is not english - I can hardly rtfa ;)

    You must be new here...
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  4. Re:Hmm by kripkenstein · · Score: 2, Funny

    I used the Google translation tool to read the last link. The translation is actually almost readable. Some funny quotes:

    "The project is not much too much the Amateurhaftigkeit" (said by Sanger)

    "Wikipedia is today one of the 20 to most called web pages in the Internet, over five million article in over 100 languages the unpaid Freiwilligen already gathered."

    As for the last line in the summary, of course they aren't 'amused'. But, a fork is legal, and legitimate. We'll see how it turns out.

  5. Not a fair comment in the summary. by ScentCone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Germans are never amused.

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  6. Members of Wikipedia were not amused. by niceone · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think so... they didn't even bother to vandalize the guy's wikipedia page!

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    1. Re:Members of Wikipedia were not amused. by LiquidFire_HK · · Score: 4, Funny
      Maybe not, but they vandalized the Citizendium article:
      The new project will stop uninformed people (such as myself) from randomly editing articals (like this) and filling them with crap.
      (now removed)
  7. Re:That's not true.... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nupedia was the Newton.
    Now that Wikipedia has put the PDA market in the palm of everyone's hand,
    someone with clout can come along and try to make it a trio of products.

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  8. Forkipedia... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the land of the edited, the anonymous coward is king.

  9. Re:Hmm by jalet · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least it's clear they are angry : they wrote all this in German !

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  10. Re:Hmm by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You must be new here. ;)

  11. Re:Hmm by BeeBeard · · Score: 5, Funny
    I have noticed how everyone becomes an expert as soon as the topic of "melt downs" or "nuclear power" comes up. Their fields of instant expertise vary from nuclear physics to statistics to medicine to environmental engineering to genetics.
    As a nuclear physicist, statistician, medical doctor, environmental engineer, and geneticist, I too share your outrage.
  12. Re:Scholarpedia by ozbird · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm waiting for Centipedia; it'll be a hundred times better than Wikipedia.

  13. Re:Hmm by doxology · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Deutsch Demokratische Republik, Wikipedia fork you!

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