Re: Larry Sanger's new project

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.
>
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