Re: Larry Sanger's new project

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.
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