Knowino is a good project, folks. Fred
> 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 forkĀso 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
