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• Hey Webware folks,
  As a Citizendium-er, I don't think you "get" why we're doing what we're doing.
  
  (And, lumping us in with some of those other things? Ouch!)
  
  You ask, "While Citizendium has already ramped up a considerable amount of articles, why not put that effort toward bettering the larger, more established Wikipedia?"
  
  In brief, the Wikipedia community is sick in certain ways (don't take my word for it; ask your average Wikipedian or browse some Wikipedia blogs), but there's no established mechanism for getting everybody together and fixing things. Many have tried- and failed. It's hard to fix a project with broken governance: most of the tools you'd want to use to fix it are broken.
  
  The reason we're striking out on our own is that many of us believe that there's no credible way to fix the ills plaguing the Wikipedia community from within, and *completely* rebooting the community, so to speak, is the only way real change is going to happen.
  
  I'd recommend reading the Governance section of this for a quick overview of how we think Wikipedia's governance went wrong, and what we're doing differently.
  
  And there is a lot at stake in this issue of building a good free encyclopedia.
  
  Mike Johnson
  Member, Citizendium Executive Committee In reply to: "Hits and misses 2.0(07)"

  December 11, 2007

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