Citizendium is not a Wikipedia "product." Larry Sanger, one of the original
editors of Nupedia, the forerunner of Wikipedia, and of Wikipedia, started
Citizendium as an attempt to correct some of the quality problems that Wikipedia
has. It has, I think, run into the same problem that the original Nupedia has:
the quality assurance process takes time. Nupedia started back in 2000/2001 with a
long list of subject editors and committees (I happened to jump in there as editor
of the library and information science subject area, when I noticed that the
original announcement from Larry Sanger library and information science was not
included; needless to say, there was no remuneration associated with it), and a
peer review system that took months to complete, because everyone who was involved
did not really have the time on top of everything else they were doing to read and
edit articles. I think in the about 3-4 years I was associated with it, we only
got one article published. One of the earliest webpages from Nupedia is archived
at http://tinyurl.com/oyj99z
Citizendium apparently does not use experts as Nupedia did--see its Myths and Facts
page at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Myths_and_Facts
Johan Koren, Assoc. Prof.
Coordinator, Library Media Program
College of Education
3201 Alexander Hall
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071
Telephone: +1-270-809-2760
Fax: +1-270-809-3799
Website: http://coekate.murraystate.edu/professors/koren/
Blogs: http://murraylibrarymedia.org
-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Nancy Carlson
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:20 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: SEC: Citizendium.org
I was wondering if any one has used or heard anything about
http://en.citizendium.org/? When in was initially introduced it was
wikipedia's answer to some of the criticism that they have been getting.
Has anyone taken the time to use it? What feed back to you have?
--
Nancy Carlson
Farmington High School
10 Monteith Drive
Farmington, CT 06032
860-673-2514x1858
carlsonn@fpsct.org or nan71753@gmail.com
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