On 8 April 2011 01:03, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You should be careful what you wish for. It's not
hard to make a
'viable competitor' encyclopedia that would be so corrupt and
inaccurate it would make the Fox News network... look like a news
network. And if it was glossy and facile enough, plenty of people
would probably be dumb enough to use it.
One thing that should probably be considered is that from the
competing POV wikipedia does 2 things.
1)It provides information to people on general interest topics (for
broad values of general interest)
2)It provides a plece for people to write articles on general interest topics.
We've received both competition and attempts at competition in both cases
In case 1 competition comes from Britannica and the million and one
aps for viewing wikipedia on your phone.
In case 2 competition attempts include knol, citizendium and more
successfully hoodong
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geni