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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. Re:Mangled by the mob.... by Jessrond · · Score: 1, Troll

    I've found it frustrating when my pages are given an AFD (articles for deletion) marking simply because someone that isn't from the US hasn't heard of something and assumes it is "non-notable."

  2. Wikipedia is regurigated BS by br00tus · · Score: 0, Troll
    Perhaps I am somewhat partisan to the workers movement, or left of center or whatever you might call it, but when I read the political and historical articles on Wikipedia, I feel they are just a regurgitation of the same nonsense I get from the corporate media. I hear about how the press is free in the US, but when I go to my local bookstore I am hard-pressed to find, say, a book about Russia which isn't written from a perspective that denounces the Russian revolution (the one exception is Five Days that shook the world - so we're allowed to hear that the Russian revolution was OK for the first five days, but that's it). There have been thousands of books about the Russian revolution, how come I can't walk into a library or bookstore and read alternative views on it? Is that freedom of the press? Is that any different than our accusations about the USSR only allowing a party line? Why can't I make up my own mind? When I point out that there is no freedom in the US with regards to this, people sometimes denounce me for desiring to read alternative viewpoints on the USSR, as if that was some horrible thing to do.

    Wikipedia just continues this tradition, and being run by someone who ran the Ayn Rand mailing list (Jimbo Wales) that's not a surprise. It's just the same crap everywhere else, except in GFDL format.

    There are alternatives out there like Anarchopedia, Red Tellus and Red Wiki, as well as liberal/soc-dem ones like Dkosopedia and Demopedia. An alternative to Wikipedia is emerging, albeit slowly, that is not just a regurgitation of the corporate bullshit we hear all the time, which is what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia has decent articles on quantum mechanics and things like that, but for history and the like it is the usual. I'm interested in the Internet as a tool to create an encyclopedia by and for working people. If you want the US imperialist corporate party line brought to you by dorky white American male professionals, then Wikipedia is the place for you.