Comments on: Wikipedia rival makes its debut

Citizendium offers community-contributed encyclopedia content with a few editorial controls (like full-name registration).

[WJeansonne]

What a mouthful for a name.

There's the number one fault right there--the name. Catchy? Not quite. More like the Mary Poppins line "super calafragistic expialidocious"

[mahurshi]

i agree.. however, i felt the same when i first heard of "wikipedia"

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[t8]

The problem is the lack of domain names

.coms are all gone.

So you need to make up a name that doesn't exist.

[thanhvn]

scalability

86 editors for 1100 articles. How many editors are needed for 1 million plus articles? Will editorial control decreases with increase in number and scope of articles, eventually asymptotically to that of Wikipedia?

[volterwd]

So...

The content, which has 1,100 articles as of this publication, includes imported Wikipedia articles that Citizendium volunteers and editors are in the process of "cleaning up" and outfitting with templates that track an article's status.

they are stealing articles from Wiki and cleaning them up acting as if they did something new?

They should be starting from scratch... seems a little cheap.

[shoffmueller]

Good point

not to mention that the whole look and feel is identical to Wikipedia. How is this site not plagerism?

[umcrouc0]

Full Name?

They're actually expecting people to post more honest stories because they need to make up a fake full name rather than a single word alias? Are they actually going to go to the person's house and check their ID? I'm pretty sure if someone can write a fake article or edit things incorrectly they can come up with a fake full name. Or figure out that if they say they were born before 1982 they'll be "at least 25 years old", say they have a BA or BSc and can be a constable. If you're actually bored enough to waste your time making fake postings I'm sure you could find ways around their system.

At least the article wasn't about Conservapedia, but that site is pretty funny.