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Wikipedia will die?

According to the newspaper The Times , the creator of the world-famous Wikipedia , criticized the Minister of Education of Great Britain Johnson, who called Wikipedia an “incredibly good” educational tool for children. Larry Sanger, the “father” of the online encyclopedia, does not think so in connection with numerous complaints about the numerous numbers of stupidities and mistakes in it. Moreover, he recently stated that Wikipedia is “spoiled and cannot be repaired”. In an interview with The Times, Saenger said that “Johnson is not aware of the problems Wikipedia suffers from, from management, unreliable content, to a series of scandals related to the content of Wikipedia articles.”

Wikipedia is among the top ten most popular Internet sites and contains more than 6 million articles compiled by ordinary readers on a voluntary basis. However, the site has long and mercilessly criticized for the abundance of inaccuracies and just nonsense. Last month, it turned out that the long-time and respected Wikipedia article writer, who seemed to be an experienced professor, turned out to be a 24-year-old dropout.

Concerned about the quality of information on Wikipedia, Sanger left Wikipedia, and a week ago he opened a new project, Citizendium.org , which, according to him, will be monitored and edited by scientists and experts. In this article, written by ordinary users will also be accepted.
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At the Citizandium site itself, the familiar to Web 2.0 startups “Welcome to Citizendium beta !” Hangs. The set of articles is not yet very large, however, given that the project is only 3 weeks old, we can assume that this is a good start. “Wikipedia is dead, long live Citizandium!”

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/6909/


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