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5 Nov 06 Wikipedia, as everyone knows, can be vulnerable to certain types of activity that compromise its integrity. As a collaboration between tens of thousands of ordinary people, without a rigorous credential policy like the current pilot of Citizendium. While on the one hand that has enabled Wikipedia to grow to its amazing size today, and the combined forces of AntiVandalBot and the Recent Change Patrollers generally keep vandalism to a minimum (although not entirely without issue), there are some kinds of vandalism that people simply aren't prepared for.
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Louisa Hearn
September 20, 2006 The long-term viability of online encyclopedia Wikipedia has once again been thrust into the spotlight after one of its founders launched a new knowledge sharing wiki project called Citizendium.
Larry Sanger, who originally helped to establish the open and collaborative online encyclopedia, announced this week that his new Citizendium project would start life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia, while offering more editorial control and elimination of anonymous contributions. |
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