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Citizendium — the clash of the experts

Started by mathewi · 11 months ago

Clay “Power Law” Shirky, who I think is a pretty smart guy when it comes to the sociology of the Internet, has written a long post over at Corante about the idea of Citizendium — the “forked” version of Wikipedia that co-founder Larry S ... Continue reading »

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  • michael webster

    2 years ago

    There is no reason why there only has to be one fork in Wikipedia. There is no technical necessity for there being "the set" of experts. We could each, feasibliy, choose our own forks of Wikipedia, viist other forks, and just see what evolves. Perhaps from the long tail of the varities of Wikipedia will rise a particularly interesting article.
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  • Mathew Ingram

    2 years ago

    That's a fair point, Michael -- although things could get Balkanized that way too, could they not? In any case, thanks for the comment.
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