The Citizendium Project: Wikipedia for Pros

Mereka mengatakan bahwa kebijaksanaan banyak orang telah terkontaminasi dengan kepentingan pribadi. Wikipedia, salah satu hasil dari proses demokrasi dan kolaboratif ini, semakin kurang dapat diandalkan sebagai sumber informasi. Hal ini mendorong mereka untuk membatasi akses ke halaman-halaman tertentu di dunia wiki untuk mencegah penyalahgunaan. Ahhh, teori kekacauan? *heh*

So what's the solution? Enter Citizendium, the wikipedia for grownups.

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It will begin life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia. But we expect it to take on a life of its own and, perhaps, to become the flagship of a new set of responsibly-managed free knowledge projects. We will avoid calling it an "encyclopedia," because there will probably always be articles in the resource that have not been vouched for in any sense.

We believe a fork is necessary, and justified, both to allow regular people a place to work under the direction of experts, and in which personal accountability--including the use of real names--is expected. In short, we want to create a responsible community and a good global citizen.

Let's hope this one solves the problem. Or, will it?