02.26.07
Citizendium – improvement over Wikipedia – or futile effort?
The opening paragraph reads:
The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on the Wikipedia model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names. It has taken on a life of its own and will, perhaps, become the flagship of a new set of responsibly-managed free knowledge projects. We will avoid calling it an “encyclopedia” until the project’s editors feel comfortable putting their reputations behind this description.
As educators, we try to teach evaluation of sources – will forcing registration make this Wiki more or less reliable for students to use? What do you think?
