Saturday, October 21, 2006

Another wiki?

Oh no, another Wikipedia? Citizendium, it's called. Problems with wikianything and compidium-whatever:

  • reality and fact are not determined by consensus.
  • few of these things can ever be 100% non-biased.
  • the biggest question is always "who decides?"
  • so what makes you an expert?
  • what makes you a better expert than another expert?
  • what makes you a reasonable moderator?
  • what topics should be included?
  • why is your topic more valid than mine?
  • the internet itself exists as such a forum already, and we don't need yet another markup syntax.

The solution has always been the competition of multiple ideas where opinions factor in to information accuracy and quality. We do have a one stop source that is as accurate as anything else: the internet itself. Search it.

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