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To some traditional publishers and information professionals, Wikipedia founding member Larry Sanger is the original agent of chaos and a threat to their existence. His latest vision, Citizendium, as reported exclusively by IWR last month, is a reference service that sounds spookily like the existing book-publishing model. Citizendium takes Wikipedia's "anyone can contribute" model and adds a traditional publishing twist -- experts will edit and judge the content that goes up online for reference use.

Citizendium is described as the "citizens' compendium of everything" and will take its initial content ...

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