I give it nine months before it fades into irrelevance; it’ll probably trickle along like OpenBSD, driven by fury and zealotry, but the first time they screw-up an article, their reason to be and media momentum will go foom.

Not least they fail to realise that the “wayward” like it that way.

Independent

The launch of Citizendium.org, which begins testing in the next few days, is the latest chapter in the bitter public feud between Mr Sanger and Jimmy Wales, with whom he conceived Wikipedia in 2001. And it comes as Wikipedia is still reeling from the revelation of embarrassing errors and the activities of malicious hackers.

Mr Sanger has begun signing up academics furious at the mistakes and generalisations they find on Wikipedia’s articles on their specialist subjects, and vowed to give these experts a special role to shape articles on Citizendium.org.

“This is merely a sensible community: one where the people who have made it their life’s work to study certain areas are given a certain appropriate authority,” Mr Sanger says. “Think of it as having village elders wandering the bazaar and occasionally dispensing advice and reining in the wayward.”

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