On 24 September 2010 12:41, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
They need a USP (Sanger's involvement is not going to be at all relevant
to that now). Well, they need a few things. But it prompts me to wonder
what our USP is. You have heard of us doesn't count.
Our USP is
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On 24/09/2010 12:28, David Gerard wrote:
Citizendium is no longer Larry Sanger's personal project, but an
independent group run by its community:
Thanks, somebody finally came out and gave the explanation without
which this thread made very little sense.
Of course Wikipedia's unique selling point is its enormous community
of dedicated editors. Anybody could take a copy of our content, but
maintaining it would require a living community and
So what else is being sold? Citizendium and everything2? Britannica
and Encarta? There are vast differences between Wikipedia and the
aforementioned, and don't forget that Encarta is no more.
Wikipedia's USP is that there is no other widely-recognized online
repository of straightforward
