More a failure of nerve; when he did not attract experts in the field he
gave authority to 2nd rate people. Present company excepted, of course.
Fred
The plan for Citizendium worked? First time that's
ever been asserted.
It worked in the sense a plan was developed, but the plan was indeed
a "behemoth" and a "straight-jacket", and was a key reason why the
project was so unsuccessful. Among the many things the plan failed to
consider, which would have been fore-front in any plan evolved by a
community, was the need to make sure the people named as the editors
actually were authorities in their subject. I was there from the
start of the project: I was one of the first "expert" editors, I was
one of the members of the first editorial board, The basic idea was
wonderful as a supplement to WP, but its failure has made it almost
impossible to try properly for a version of WP with expert peer-review
of the content.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:14 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 February 2013 11:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Sounds like he want's to build a megaproject
in a huge go, no
evolutionary
steps at all, and then see if anyone likes the behemoth of a
constructed
reality straight-jacket.
Well, it worked for Citizendium. (Completely planned out about a year
in advance, from the Slashdot editorial.)
- d.
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