Hello folks! Most of you are probably familiar with Citizendium, the competitor to Wikipedia that Larry Sanger started back in 2006. Citizendium is now dying under the weight of a massive bureaucracy, which was landed upon the project either far too early or far too late in its development at a time when there were not enough users to support it. A cursory glance over the forums at http://forum.citizendium.org will reveal a great deal of bickering and quarrelling, and very little progress.
Several months back, I decided to create a "fork" of Citizendium called "Knowino". (I guess I intended it more as a social than a technical fork—so far we've imported quite a few mathematics and physics articles from Citizendium, but my main aim has been to run the community in a less bureaucratic and top-down way than Citizendium.) You can find it on the Web at: http://knowino.org Knowino is still very, very much in the development stage (one could argue that a wiki never really *leaves* that stage), ;-) but so far here are the main things that differentiate Knowino from Citizendium and/or Wikipedia: * Anyone can contribute. Creating an account and signing in is recommended, but not mandatory. (Unlike Citizendium, where you have to create an account under your own real name.) * Expert contributors are invited to review articles using Flagged Revisions. (Unlike Wikipedia. The process for selecting expert contributors still needs to be fleshed out a little.) * Temporary content "forks" (splits) are used to facilitate dispute resolution. (Unlike both Wikipedia and Citizendium.) * We allow multiple articles, written from different approaches, on individual topics. (Unlike both Wikipedia and Citizendium. I suppose we'll see how this turns out in the long run.) If you're interested, I encourage you to check out Knowino at http://knowino.org. Thanks, Tom. -- Thomas Larsen http://basicprogramming.org _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
