Ken,
There's 'citizendium' (http://en.citizendium.org/) which is an attempt
to use the wikipedia framework and yet address exactly the problems
that you highlight.
Cheers.
Fil
On 1 July 2011 09:39, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> [...]
> One reason that Wikipedia has so many stubs and so few robust
> contributions is that any cheerful enthusiast can erase or revise a
> carefully prepared article. While the Wikipedia idea interested me, I
> stopped contributing after a couple of go-rounds on a topic where I am a
> subject-field expert. After explaining my view in the Wikipedia
> back-channel system, I realized that a Wiki enthusiast with many
> articles to his credit would always take precedence, despite the fact
> that I have several major books and book chapters on this topic from
> leading academic publisher, as well as a significant number of
> peer-reviewed journal articles and special journal issues. Wikipedia can
> often be an interesting starting point, but you’ve got to know enough
> to know the limits. Many of the amateur contributors have nothing other
> than enthusiasm, and the Wikipedia system will always privilege a
> dedicated amateur over an expert with no final review mechanism and no
> avenue of appeal. When I have written encyclopedia articles (the real
> kind, not the Wiki kind), I find it takes about two weeks to produce
> 1,000 words pitched at the broad general audience of an encyclopedia.
> Few writers are willing to spend this kind of time on a Wikipedia entry
> that can vanish at the blink of an amateur eye.
>
> Compare the with the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. This is an
> open access, web-based reference work. It’s editorial and publishing
> models represent the highest standards of academic excellence. To learn
> more, visit URL:
>
> http://plato.stanford.edu/
> [...]
> If you can propose something similar for design that reaches the same
> standards, I’d welcome it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ken
>
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