Kim van der Linde wrote
To be honest, if (BIG IF) Citizendium is going to work
and produces
higher quality stuff at a sufficient fast rate, it will only need a
study or two showing that Citizendium is higher quality/more reliable
than Wikipedia to flip everything around. If Wikipedia has to rely on
Citizendium for better quality GFDL texts than that they can produce
themselves, it effectively proves that Wikipedia cannot do what it wants
with its current editing paradigm.
Frankly, I doubt it proves that. Everyone who argues solely in terms of 'star'
content and ignores the infrastructural things makes a big if typical mistake. It is going
to be a lot easier for WP to improve article content, in areas where it actually has some
welcome competition, than it is going to be for those rivals to import into their site the
necessary redirects and so on, to give the navigational smooth ride. (I think scholars out
there are aware that in general Europeans before 1500 have far too many names; I know
which site I put my money on to have the variants.)
Charles
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