zmjezhd's mention of Wikipedia in another thread reminded me of this: Citizendium.
Here's the topic: When you're a cofounder of Wikipedia, what do you do for an encore? If you're Larry Sanger, the answer is simple: you build another Wikipedia. A better one.

I presume most of you have heard about it. It is now up, in beta version. Here's the link, if anyone wants to get in on the ground floor, so to speak:
Citizendium beta.

Disclaimer: I am not advocating Citizendium; just proffering news, since it hasn't been mentioned here.

The article leaves me somewhat sceptical: I wonder if an axe to grind is a fertile starting point for an alternative project.
And Widespread anonymity has a problem—it's attractive to people who want to cause trouble, undermine the project, or simply troll
is certainly true, but endemic to the Internet as such, due to its fundamental structure, with all its ambivalent potential.

Jackie thanks for that link, which I have ensconced amongst my Faves

Again let me not preach to the choir, but "ensconce" is a Type-3 for which 2 is "situate" and 1 "put"

> Again let me not preach to the choir

now that's funny.

type 1:entrenched
2:placed
3:set

Is that the go?
please excuse the digression.

I'm sorry, but..

-joe (maybe two(2) types?) friday

It's a go. Please digress at any time

Changing the rules, Dale?

In what way
Please elucidate

I think olly had the categories reversed. type-3 should be the 'snooty' word...

Oops that's right

I see now, thanks. The higher the number, the higher the difficulty, rarity, or 'snootidity'?

> snootidity

indubitably.

"indubitably" a word I have always loved hearing Daffy Duck say.

Back to your original post Jackie;
zmjezhd's mention of Wikipedia reminded me of this: Citizendium.

Wikipedia:
"Wiki Wiki" is a reduplication of "wiki", a Hawaiian-language word for fast. In Rarotongan Maori: Viviki, fast, or Taviviki, go fast.

encyclopædia
A comprehensive written compendium that contains information.

wikipedia = a fast compendium.


Citizendium I feel is too bulky a word for ease of use.
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Yep, that's what I was referring to; thanks, eta.

yeah, but....olly,
the pedia part of encyclopedia is:
Etymology: Medieval Latin encyclopaedia course of general education, from Greek enkyklios + paideia education, child rearing, from paid-, pais child
(according to [url=
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=encyclopedia]merriman webster[/url]
(the same root paid- (refering to child) is found in such words as pediatrian, or pediaphile)

so wikepedia is 'quick' (wiki) + paedia (education/child rearing)

the comprehensive part of the word is the encyclo--(encircling, entire, all round)

an encyclopaedia is a source for all round educational information. or comprehensive information.. (similar notion--but then words do shift in meaning/nuance) still we do talk about a having a well rounded education.

Quite right. Ta.

Here is one of the dangers of wiki.

Now that is just plain weird.

bummer. the UNcyclopedia has been so reliable up to now...