Co-Founder Forks Wikipedia

tmk writes "Larry Sanger, first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, plans to fork the project. In Berlin he announced the start of Citizendium — the citizen's compendium. Main differences: no anonymous editing, and experts will rule the project. Members of Wikipedia were not amused."

no anonymous editing

[Anonymous Coward]

I hate Anonymous Cowards!

Sprachen sie Deutsche?

[rbanzai]

Wikipedia members were not amused... ... and neither were Slashdot readers who don't speak German!

Re:Hmm

[SigILL]

Too bad the second link is not english - I can hardly rtfa ;)

You must be new here...

Re:Hmm

[kripkenstein]

I used the Google translation tool [google.com] to read the last link. The translation is actually almost readable. Some funny quotes:

"The project is not much too much the Amateurhaftigkeit" (said by Sanger)

"Wikipedia is today one of the 20 to most called web pages in the Internet, over five million article in over 100 languages the unpaid Freiwilligen already gathered."

As for the last line in the summary, of course they aren't 'amused'. But, a fork is legal, and legitimate. We'll see how it turns out.

Not a fair comment in the summary.

[ScentCone]

Germans are never amused.

Members of Wikipedia were not amused.

[niceone]

I don't think so... they didn't even bother to vandalize the guy's wikipedia page!

Re:That's not true....

[smittyoneeach]

Nupedia was the Newton.
Now that Wikipedia has put the PDA market in the palm of everyone's hand,
someone with clout can come along and try to make it a trio of products.

Forkipedia...

[__aaclcg7560]

In the land of the edited, the anonymous coward is king.

Re:Hmm

[jalet]

At least it's clear they are angry : they wrote all this in German !

Re:Hmm

[ichigo 2.0]

You must be new here. ;)

Re:Members of Wikipedia were not amused.

[LiquidFire_HK]

Maybe not, but they vandalized the Citizendium article:

The new project will stop uninformed people (such as myself) from randomly editing articals (like this) and filling them with crap.

(now removed)

Re:Sprachen sie Deutsche?

[owlnation]

GrammatikNazi?

Sie mussen neu hier sein, oder?

Re:Hmm

[BeeBeard]

I have noticed how everyone becomes an expert as soon as the topic of "melt downs" or "nuclear power" comes up. Their fields of instant expertise vary from nuclear physics to statistics to medicine to environmental engineering to genetics.

As a nuclear physicist, statistician, medical doctor, environmental engineer, and geneticist, I too share your outrage.

Re:Sprachen sie Deutsche?

[MustardMan]

ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!

Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.

Re:Scholarpedia

[ozbird]

I'm waiting for Centipedia; it'll be a hundred times better than Wikipedia.

Re:Hmm

[doxology]

In Deutsch Demokratische Republik, Wikipedia fork you!