Wikipedia forks

by Volker Weber

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance.  It will begin life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia.  But we expect it to take on a life of its own and, perhaps, to become the flagship of a new set of responsibly-managed free knowledge projects.

I'd be surprised if this works.

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Warum soll das nicht funktionieren? Immerhin sind einige Schwächen bei dem Community-Modell von Wikipedia bekannt geworden - neben einigen Betrügereien offenkundig mangelnde Kompetenz mancher Beiträgeschreiber. Etwas wirkliches Wissen schadet nie. Und: Wikipedia wird inzwischen bei Online-Recherchen fast immer auf einem der vorderen Plätze gelistet. Aus der Graswurzel-Alternative ist ein hübsches kleines Monopol geworden. Und wer will das schon?

Hartmut Wiehr, 2006-09-18 12:20

Is Citizendium the Über-Wikipedia? I doubt a little about their success. It would be better to raise the standards at Wikipedia and to clean-up and consolidate the knowhow over there.

Hartmut, ich denke, das funktioniert nicht, weil die Wikipedia eine starke Marke ist. Man kann so etwas ablösen, wie Altavista/Google bewiesen hat. Aber dazu muss man sehr viel besser sein. Und das halte ich für unwahrscheinlich. Insbesondere, wenn man einen Namen wählt, den ich mir immer noch nicht merken kann.

some others doubt the success as well, see the discussion at Nick Carrr

Armin Auth, 2006-09-19 16:09

Na ja, der Carr weist doch die ganze Zeit auf viele Wikipedia-Mängel hin (in Deutschland wird er leider viel zu wenig wahrgenommen). Das macht er zu recht, wie ich finde, auch angesichts der überbordenden Blogging-Szene (wobei es da natürlich viele gute, höchst informative Leckerbissen gibt). Einfach eine Meinung zu haben und die mal schnell hinzuschreiben, reicht nur selten. Da ist der klassische Journalismus von so alten (und konservativen) Tanten wie "Wall Street Journal" oder "Financial Times" oder "Economist" einfach besser.

Hartmut Wiehr, 2006-09-19 19:05

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