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FAR FROM being a "force for good", according to the UK's education minister Alan Johnson, Wikipedia is unreliable and "broken beyond repair", co-founder Larry Sanger said.
The Times reported Sanger's remarks in the wake of a speech Johnson made to teachers yesterday. Johnson said Wikipedia allows people to access info which formerly would require expensive subscriptions to the Encyclopaedia Brittanica and the like.
But Sanger said the community was "often dysfunctional", the content was unreliable and it had serious management problems.
-The Inquirer-
The Times reported Sanger's remarks in the wake of a speech Johnson made to teachers yesterday. Johnson said Wikipedia allows people to access info which formerly would require expensive subscriptions to the Encyclopaedia Brittanica and the like.
But Sanger said the community was "often dysfunctional", the content was unreliable and it had serious management problems.
-The Inquirer-
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Columbus, Ohio – March 27, 2007 – Citizendium, a project aimed at creating a new free encyclopedia online, announced today that a beta version is now available to the general public. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, 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.
-Citizendium Press release-
-Citizendium Press release-
