Tangled up in Purple » citizendia http://www.nixit.co.nz/wordpress Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:32:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Citizendium – Watch This Space http://www.nixit.co.nz/wordpress/2007/citizendium-watch-this-space/ http://www.nixit.co.nz/wordpress/2007/citizendium-watch-this-space/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:08:20 +0000 nix http://www.nixit.co.nz/wordpress/2007/06/07/citizendium-watch-this-space/ Continue reading → Related posts:
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]]> The Citizendium is a project that aims to create

“a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a co-founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names.” from Citizendium Main Page

This is an interesting development in the evolution of the internet. The Wikipedia has been criticised for the way that its articles can be subverted by self-proclaimed experts and by those with barrows to push. It will be interesting to follow what happens with this new initiative.

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