There's not much on Citizendium yet, but I'm hoping.  It was started by one of the
original Wikepedia guys who was disturbed by the growing inaccuracies they were posting.

--
Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jean Spradlin-Miller <[log in to unmask]>
> 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
> 
> > 
> > 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
> >