But the "Constables" of Citizendium are not exactly the "Senators Wikipedians" (graduates and more than 25 years of age ') that I am promoting for several months with letters and posts to Jimbo?
is what appears today in Corriere della Sera about the "Constables" of Citizendium:
... Submitted by Larry Sanger, a founder of 'Wiki', Citizendium (the challenge of 'credible' in Wikipedia) is a version corrected and improved collective encyclopedia, because the information is sifted by a team of experts.
name is the latest challenge to Citizendium Citizendium. Introduced last year by the Larry Sanger that "Wiki" was one of the founders intended Citizendium (born from a combination of the words "Citizens' compendium of everything 'or' the epitome of the citizen") would be a revised, corrected and improved collective encyclopedia because the information entered by users (which, as per Wikipedia, they can begin or continue a number of articles) pass the scrutiny of a team of experts, identified by name, who will decide what to put online, what matters in depth or that piece ball. Another important novelty compared to the parent, each 'contributor' will have to supply personal information and do not hide behind fancy names or aliases: a device intended to avoid blunders and gross inaccuracies that are often appeared in recent years, casting shadows and suspicions about the most popular Web encyclopedia.
a credible system - Clamorous was the case of John Seigenthaler, editor of USA Today, which was discovered in 2005 in its article on Wikipedia that someone had linked the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Of course, opened fire and flames, branding "Wiki" as a "shelter volunteer vandals' reputations of others. "Wikipedia has done great things - Sanger said the Times - but it is time for something new is born. Sometimes, information published online encyclopedia are not very precise. Engaging expert editors, eliminating anonymous contribution and launching a community of users more mature and aware, you can, instead, to create an open system but at the same time, credible. " In short, the quality versus quantity. Initially, the Citizendium pilot project is by invitation only and will move along the lines of Wikipedia. "The contributors can post their articles - a spokesman said - the final goal will be to improve or replace all Wikipedia content."
I 'Constables' - In addition to editors and authors (all, as mentioned, recognizable) was also introduced a third category of employees: they are 'constables' (the' constables of Citizendium) and to be allowed in the group must be a graduate and have over 25 years. These experts will, set a super set of rules for 'contributors', thereby preventing the interaction with the encyclopedia for those who take on behaviors considered inappropriate to the spirit of the initiative. Among the "constables" in the figure Gareth Leng, Professor of Experimental Physiology at the University of Edinburgh, who, always at the Times, explained why he agreed to participate in the project: "We need scientists to explain clearly and objectively to public what science can or can not do. Citizendium And our role is not to tell readers what opinions should have, but to give them the tools to decide for themselves. "
Simona Marchetti, September 8, 2007 ......"
Here it turns out that I make the order with Graham Bell Antonio Meucci in the invention of the telephone .....( joke of course!). Prof. Maria Rubino
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