I would say the biggest reason why Wikipedia is still top dog would probably be "anyone can edit" combined with timing.
________________________________ From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 9:01:47 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite On 1 July 2010 16:57, David Goodman <dgoodma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Citizendium is perhaps most valuable for having > showed us a path we should not follow--elaborate bureaucracy and > expert editing--but in a more positive sense did highlight the need > for us to improve article quality. Citizendium's bureaucracy and expert editing weren't the main reason for its failure. The main reason was that Wikipedia already existed. For all we know, Citizendium's approach may have been better than ours (although personally I doubt it), but it wasn't sufficiently better for people to switch from Wikipedia, which was already very successful. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
