March 27, 2007 at 01:25Citizendium will fix Wikipedia errors
The Citizendium project (Citizens' Compendium, English, "civilian reference"), which should become the next competitor to Wikipedia, left the stage of closed testing on March 25 and began to work in full force, albeit with the beta beta logo on the logo today. The new online encyclopedia was created by one of the founders of Wikipedia, Larry Senger, who, having begun to seek recognition of his old merits , decided to try to create something qualitatively new and better than his past brainchild.
Numerous inaccuracies, intentional vandalism, as well as the groundlessness and fragmentation of facts in many Wikipedia articles from the very beginning worried the community of resource authors and its users around the world. Constantly taken measures to get rid of these vices gradually improve the quality of information provided by the encyclopedia. But while preserving the freedom of editing any text underlying her ideology by anyone, these shortcomings are simply inevitable, Sanger believes.
His alternative path is based on improving the control of volunteer contributions in several ways. First of all, registration is required to participate in Citizendium. This should increase the authors' personal responsibility for the information they publish.
But the system is not limited only to the hope of human honesty. The main innovation is an expert assessment system based on the work of the so-called Constables (CZ Constebles). Anyone can enter into their number if he is not younger than 25 years old and has a scientific degree not lower than a bachelor. These people will check the information published by users, make comments to them and, in case of malicious disobedience, apply sanctions up to weaning from the life of the site.
So far, the basis is taken Wiki content, which will be re-checked, supplemented and brought to a more academic look. In the near future , 820 authors and 180 editors have 1,100 articles from the old Wikipedia. Of course, in the future the number of participants should increase. At least Sanger hopes so.
Back in September, when the first mention of Citizendium appeared , many commentators had deep doubts that the expert model could live up to its expectations. Not to mention the obviously unpopular restrictive measures that it carries, its very effectiveness in screening false and erroneous information is called into question. However, very soon we will see everything with our own eyes. Fortunately, there is no shortage of people wishing to arrange an ambitious project for the exam in the near future.
Numerous inaccuracies, intentional vandalism, as well as the groundlessness and fragmentation of facts in many Wikipedia articles from the very beginning worried the community of resource authors and its users around the world. Constantly taken measures to get rid of these vices gradually improve the quality of information provided by the encyclopedia. But while preserving the freedom of editing any text underlying her ideology by anyone, these shortcomings are simply inevitable, Sanger believes.
His alternative path is based on improving the control of volunteer contributions in several ways. First of all, registration is required to participate in Citizendium. This should increase the authors' personal responsibility for the information they publish.
But the system is not limited only to the hope of human honesty. The main innovation is an expert assessment system based on the work of the so-called Constables (CZ Constebles). Anyone can enter into their number if he is not younger than 25 years old and has a scientific degree not lower than a bachelor. These people will check the information published by users, make comments to them and, in case of malicious disobedience, apply sanctions up to weaning from the life of the site.
So far, the basis is taken Wiki content, which will be re-checked, supplemented and brought to a more academic look. In the near future , 820 authors and 180 editors have 1,100 articles from the old Wikipedia. Of course, in the future the number of participants should increase. At least Sanger hopes so.
Back in September, when the first mention of Citizendium appeared , many commentators had deep doubts that the expert model could live up to its expectations. Not to mention the obviously unpopular restrictive measures that it carries, its very effectiveness in screening false and erroneous information is called into question. However, very soon we will see everything with our own eyes. Fortunately, there is no shortage of people wishing to arrange an ambitious project for the exam in the near future.