Larry Sanger is one of the most abrasive, authoritarian people I've ever had the mispleasure of arguing with. He also tried to screw my friend Ben Kovitz out of credit for introducing Larry to the concept of wikis.
So it looks like its starting off as a clone of Wikipedia but with less features? They made it more modern looking (which is actually really quite nice) but they did so by removing stuff like citations, which is really important when anyone can edit the content (the ability to check the source for a given statement is really nice).
In fact, how do they know which sources to remove from the references when doing a large edit of a page? Does the editor have to go through all the references and figure out exactly which statements depended on which reference? Or is there just a "any reference is a good reference" policy and once added to an article they stay there forever?
Also the reference section allows people to vote on references? Why?
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 22.1 ms ] threadYes, it hurts that Jimmy Wales is famous and nearly nobody knows you.
But why should Everipedia achieve what Citizendium hasn‘t?
Oh, right. „Blockchain“.
In fact, how do they know which sources to remove from the references when doing a large edit of a page? Does the editor have to go through all the references and figure out exactly which statements depended on which reference? Or is there just a "any reference is a good reference" policy and once added to an article they stay there forever?
Also the reference section allows people to vote on references? Why?
Also no random article button.