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Citizendium goes live in beta.(Brief article)
Byline: Laura Smith
Citizendium goes live in beta
Laura Smith
A new online encyclopaedia, widely regarded as an attempt to correct the shortcomings of Wikipedia, has opened its doors to the public four months after the pilot project began.
Citizendium, or "the citizen's compendium of everything", is from Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, who said the use of academic-quality articles and contributors' real names would make it more accurate and accountable than its predecessor.
"The modest success of our pilot project shows that there is hope that we can correct exactly the sorts of abuses that people demonise Web 2.0 for," said Sanger, the project's editor in chief, who left Wikipedia in 2002.
"You don't have to choose between content and accountability. We can be ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Citizendium goes live in beta.(Brief article)