There is now a new rival site called Citizendium, which was started by the founder of Wikipedia.  The site says that it "aims to improve on that model by adding 'gentle expert oversight' and requiring contributors to use their real names."

I cannot corroborate it's authenticity, but you may want to take a look at it.

http://en.citizendium.org

Jean Spradlin-Miller

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> From: Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2007/04/13 Fri AM 08:24:13 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: "Americans" and Wikipedia
> 
> I hate to sound dogmatic, but I never use Wikipedia for anything but
> rock-star bios. It's a giant trash heap. I have looked at entries relating
> to TJ, GW, the Rev War, Civil War -- things I know something about -- and
> errors are everywhere. Putting on my editor's hat, I once tried to correct
> a simple, totally non-controversial factual mistake in the TJ entry--I had
> at hand the latest, gold-standard research from the top expert at
> Monticello--and some idiot kept restoring the wrong info. I gave up. It's
> all amateurs over there, playing around.
> 
> Henry Wiencek
> Charlottesville
>