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A Look Inside Citizendium

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rack-up-the-editing-cred dept.

Raindance writes "I've posted an in-depth look at Citizendium, Larry Sanger's new project and Wikipedia's new competitor. In a nutshell, Citizendium isn't just about building a better encyclopedia (though that is their goal) — it's also a pilot project for a new model of expert-guided radical collaboration with implications for things from open peer review to genome wikis. If you'd like to help out, they need both volunteers and donations."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Hmmm... by GammaKitsune · · Score: 4, Funny

    How long before we get a fanboy war between Wikipedians and, uh... Citizendoids?

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    1. Re:Hmmm... by Das+Modell · · Score: 4, Funny

      Future generations will come to know the coming struggle as The Great Edit Wars.

      Or something.

    2. Re:Hmmm... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

      Will the Wikipedians settle on emacs, or vi?
      Will the Citizendoids reflexively assume the opposite editor?
      Will the fresh reinforcements tip the balance in favor of either editor in Teh Eternal Struggle?
      Anything to save us from the crap on cable news...

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    3. Re:Hmmm... by chkMINUS · · Score: 2, Funny

      Future generations will come to know the coming struggle as The Great Wars.

      Or something.

  3. Not a good start by jpardey · · Score: 2, Funny

    If peer reviewed experts can't come up with a better name than "Citizendium," I think they are going to have troubles writing a whole encyclopedia.

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  4. your sig is brilliant by s16le · · Score: 0, Funny
    Slashdot: "20 hours a week at Best Buy; 6 units at the community college; we are qualified to have opinions on things!"

    It delights me to imagine some pasty lardass, sitting in his parents' basement, reading this and turning red. Awesome. After he uses his precious mod points to retaliate in the only way he can, he'll piss in an empty mountain dew bottle and cry himself to sleep.

    Slashdot user, I curse thee: may thou remainest as unpopular as thou was in high-school.

    lol own3d.

  5. Re:How long.... by Xichekolas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, pretty sure that Wikipedia leverages the collective foresight of humanity to write the articles BEFORE the event happens... and if you don't believe me, I'm sure I could stick that 'fact' in the Wikipedia article on Wikipedia... creating a paradox in the space-time continuum and destroying the universe... don't make me do it!

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    Self-referential Sigs are cool on /. these days...

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