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Re: What's wrong with Wikipedia (Scripting News)

Larry Sanger — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:08:49 -0000

Dave, I just gave a talk at Harvard in which I made similar arguments: http://www.larrysanger.org/realnames.html

In some respects, what you're pointing toward is what the Citizendium already does. We're a new project, but I think in the next few years you're going to see a lot more of us and a lot more considering the merits of our sort of project.

Re: Google News comments: More examples

Larry Sanger — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:38:56 -0000

Tony, Mathew -- I just gotta say, given the sometimes hostile reaction to Citizendium by people like Mick O'Leary, and others who desperately want us to fail, I do feel like a "New Media Orphan." A New Media Apostate, more like. ;-)

Re: Citizendium Turns One. Point Still Unclear

Larry Sanger — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:49:17 -0000

I'm not sure you actually read the essay you linked to, Tim. I think you missed the point by a mile: we are growing, at an accelerating rate. Alexa ranking and comparisons to Wikipedia are utterly and completely irrelevant--of course. And as anyone who knows much about the growth vectors of projects like this understands.

Another point left out of the essay, which I just found out about, is that CZ has slightly more words (5 million) than Wikipedia had after one year. See:

http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/11/01/our-word...

As to the ridiculous notion that the Citizendium has no "point"--well, that's so silly it needs no reply. If you don't know what the point of the project is, you don't know anything about the project.

Re: Jason Calacanis Building the Next Google?

Larry Sanger — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:21:10 -0000

"the latter hasnâ€™t exactly set the world on fire since its launch."

It takes time to set the whole world on fire. We've definitely made great progress since launch, increasing our "live" article almost by 50% (over 1700) and almost doubling our number of authors. Arguably, we're looking better now than Wikipedia did after six months...

Re: Jason Calacanis Building the Next Google?

Larry Sanger — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:17:19 -0000

"when do you project to pass Wikipedia in terms of popularity?"

I haven't got a single clue. It all depends on how quickly we build up our body of articles. We're growing exponentially, as Wikipedia did from the beginning, but it's hard to know in advance how steep the growth curve will be.