The plan for Citizendium worked? First time that's ever been asserted. It worked in the sense a plan was developed, but the plan was indeed a "behemoth" and a "straight-jacket", and was a key reason why the project was so unsuccessful. Among the many things the plan failed to consider, which would have been fore-front in any plan evolved by a community, was the need to make sure the people named as the editors actually were authorities in their subject. I was there from the start of the project: I was one of the first "expert" editors, I was one of the members of the first editorial board, The basic idea was wonderful as a supplement to WP, but its failure has made it almost impossible to try properly for a version of WP with expert peer-review of the content.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:14 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 February 2013 11:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sounds like he want's to build a megaproject in a huge go, no evolutionary >> steps at all, and then see if anyone likes the behemoth of a constructed >> reality straight-jacket. > > > Well, it worked for Citizendium. (Completely planned out about a year > in advance, from the Slashdot editorial.) > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l -- David Goodman DGG at the enWP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
