Citizendium launches
Old news now yes, but I was in France yesterday and have been busy with Xinki the rest of the week so I thought I’d blog about it.
I visited the site as I was curious. What did I get? An error page. Then I accessed the site proper, and saw warnings about re-trying if I got errors, and lots of red links on the main page. Not good…
I checked out the new user log to see who was on this thing. Account creation is disabled; you have to request an account be created for you, with your username being your real name.
I then visited Special:Version. It said “MediaWiki 1.10 (modified)”, whatever modified means on an as-yet unreleased version of MediaWiki, and that they were using PostgreSQL as their database.
Will Citizendium be around in a years’ time? It’s hard to gauge. Back in 2001, nobody knew if Wikipedia was going to be successful. Here we are six years and over 1.7 million articles later. So who knows? Comments please!
March 31st, 2007 at 5:11 pm
this is stupid! why make another encyclopaedia - noone needs two. there are few differences, so maybe a better idea would be to try and negotiate logical changes in WP policies to create a super-go-go-power-rangers-encyclopaedia.
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
They’re stalling on choosing what license to use, an interesting point by itself.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:02 am
I just don’t understand it. Look at their article on the USA. It’s so short it’s probably still a stub. Now if this was Wikipedia six years ago when the wiki concept (and using it to write a free encyclopedia) then fair enough. But it’s not. I really think this is absurd, especially with all the arguing and poking and “I founded Wikipedia” from Larry. But…we’ll see.