Tools For Thought - Intelegia

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you probably know my take on Wikipedia. If you are not, let’s just say that I’m not the BIGGEST fan of Wikipedia due to credibility issues.

Well I discovered today, Citizendium, “a project aimed at creating a new free encyclopedia online.”

Wonderful. In the Citzendium press release, the platform is described as a project that “aims to improve on the Wikipedia model with accountability and academic-quality articles as cornerstones of its work. To achieve this, Citizendium requires contributors to use their real names. As a result, the four-month pilot project has created a thriving, productive and vandalism-free community.”

I can see where this is going. Both platforms will be executing some pretty heavy duty public relation activities to prove that their respective platform is the most credible in terms of content, contributors and editors.