Wikipedia... Down?

[kineaesth]

It could well be the end of the universe folks... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

[Stigmata]

It's back already

 

[Lh'owon]

It's not working for me...

Shows how reliant I am on wikipedia that I noticed it was down before I found this thread

EDIT: It's sort of working, but running really slow and keeps getting stuck on loading

 

[Cheomesh]

www.citizendium.org

It's supposed to be better than wiki. You gotta prove who you are before you can get an account. I actually contributed a few things wiki didn't have and Citizendium rejected me because all my ID is on my person. I actually think the project fails already. They're new and don't have as many articles as wiki does -- I was going to write them a few on paleolithic man, as well as some computer science related articles, but like I said I can't get accepted. Also, they want to be a "credible font of human knowledge", but they don't want "pornographic" or "sexually focused" information out side of biology, which is a good bit of human knowledge right there not part of their project. I do empathize with them, as what's the point in an article on a porn star?

 

[Murray_H]

I do empathize with them, as what's the point in an article on a porn star?

To find out about the porn star...

 

[Krynn72]

Whats the point of finding out about people?

 

[Lh'owon]

Frankly Citizendium is doomed, at least in my opinion. Anything it comes up with (content/quality) that wikipedia doesn't have will likely be incorporated into wikipedia anyway.

My main issue with it is I don't think it'll command the trust it sets out to. I can't imagine myself thinking "oh, Citizendium, they're peer-reviewed and professional, I trust everything here sooo much more than wikipedia".

 

[The Monkey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium

It was actually started by one of the co-founders of Wikipedia.

 

[Tagaziel]

Wikipedia down, but back already? Oh, how I hoped for a permanent crash and destruction of the servers...

 

[Cheomesh]

Frankly Citizendium is doomed, at least in my opinion. Anything it comes up with (content/quality) that wikipedia doesn't have will likely be incorporated into wikipedia anyway.

My main issue with it is I don't think it'll command the trust it sets out to. I can't imagine myself thinking "oh, Citizendium, they're peer-reviewed and professional, I trust everything here sooo much more than wikipedia".

Professionally reviewed, actually.

 

[Operational]

My main issue with it is I don't think it'll command the trust it sets out to. I can't imagine myself thinking "oh, Citizendium, they're peer-reviewed and professional, I trust everything here sooo much more than wikipedia".

I trust it more than Wikipeida - not that I use it much due to its, thus far, small range of articles.

 

[Reginald]

There's an Irish hunger strike?

This is awful.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Lolwut, wiki is fine.