Citizendium

Imitation is best the compliment.

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a co-founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names. As of May the 13th, 2007, we were working on over 1,815 articles.

I would hope that all 1815 articles are spectacular, especially when being compared to Wikipedia’s 1.8 million.

I do wonder what a “real name” is. Will someone run a “wiki background check” on each author? At any rate I wish them all the best. The more resources we have, the more chances our students will have to compare and contrast.

I hope the masses never decide what is fact and what is fiction based on the number of hits in a Google search.

Try this. Type “recieve” into Google. It looks like 13 million people have misspelled this word. Would you “beleive” is at 4.8 million? “Noticable” is hardly noticeable at 2.1 million and “aparent” is anything but… at 1.1 million.

Hopefully we never write a dictionary based on mob rule.