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I think the next generation of online encyclopedia will let a writer "own" a complete version of the article, and the readership/editors will vote on the best w

• cooper12 11y ago
  Ownership of articles is exactly what †hey was complaining about though. And content forks are a logistical nightmare; how do you track, diff, and merge all those different changes when needed? You'd think with stuff like git it's already a solved problem choosing what to show and how to present it brings in its own issues like biased judges, forks for different points of views, everyone editing their preferred version, etc. It completely circumvents the point of collaborative editing and discussion on one version of an article. There's no such thing as one source of truth, but I'd rather have something close to that than many sources.
• Animats 11y ago
  That's Citizendium.[1] 16K articles total, 1219 "developed" articles, 160 "expert approved, citable articles". It has about 10 active contributors, after 8 years of operation. [1] http://en.citizendium.org/ http://en.citizendium.org/