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Larry Sanger has changed his mind about forking Wikipedia. As you'll recall, Sanger, who cofounded Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales, has been working on creating Citizendium, an expert-edited alternative to the motley online encyclopedia. The original plan was to "fork" Wikipedia - in other words, make a copy of Wikipedia's contents and then re

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JohnChasWebb
Jan. 21, 2007, 1:48 p.m.
This seems to be a natural 'next step' in the evolution of Wikipedia. Even though the presently existing Wikipedia articles will not be 'broadsided' into the Citizendium data base they (Wikipedia articles) surely can be consulted during the drafting of new/updated articles.
This new 'Citizendium' approach will eliminate the often frustrating consequence of having anonymous 'authors' edit or vandalize articles in a non-academic and biased fashion. It will also prohibit 'authors' who have an agenda other than the creation of objective and encyclopedic content.
Never-the-less, many Wikipedia articles that have been deemed to be excellent and complete should be incorporated into the Citizendium database. These 'excellent articles' will not require extensive editing and can be preserved.
Bottom line: Let's not throw out the baby with the bath water. Many of Wikipedia's articles can be included, intact, in Citizendium. This salvaging approach will save much redundancy.
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samsara15
Jan. 21, 2007, 3:16 p.m.
There is a lot of excellent and valuable resource material in Wikipedia, and also a lot of inaccurate and poorly written chaff. It's too valuable a resource not to use most of it.