More a failure of nerve; when he did not attract experts in the field he gave authority to 2nd rate people. Present company excepted, of course.
Fred > 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
