On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:11, David Gerard wrote:
> basically - nobody's editing anything any more, and the money's running out.
Or, as en.Wikipedia puts it: "As of January 2019, it had 16,978
articles, of which 166 had achieved editorial approval, and around 2
contributors who made at least 1
Not that occurs to me. I mentioned it here mostly as a historical note
- what happened to our most widely publicised fork.
Their current plans are:
* put good content into Wikipedia
* archive a final version with the Internet Archive
* maybe set up some sort of successor
- d.
On Sat, 4 Jul
Is there any merit in us helping them continue to exist?
Seddon
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:13 PM David Gerard wrote:
> here's the discussion:
>
> https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Forum_Talk:Technical_Issues#Any_further_thoughts.3F
>
> On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:11, David Gerard wrote:
> >
> >
here's the discussion:
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Forum_Talk:Technical_Issues#Any_further_thoughts.3F
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 22:11, David Gerard wrote:
>
> Front page:
>
> > This wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see
> >
Front page:
> This wiki was unsuccessful in achieving its original goals (see
> https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Wikipedia-and-Citizendium).
> A dedicated few writers have continued working in the wiki, improving
> articles that they believe are useful, and which for
Thanks Denny! I appreciate this, and your thoughtfulness as always.
Thanks for starting an explicit discussion. I think our field (meaning,
computer science & internet projects broadly) often assumes that these
questions will just arise in context, or get solved as we go, but they
rarely do. So
