The Chronicle: A Wikipedia for Scholars (Take 2)
If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, then Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales must be feeling pretty pleased with the new crop of upstart online encyclopedias coming from the academic world.
First came Larry Sanger’s Citizendium — a “progressive fork” of Wikipedia that aims to take articles from that site and let scholars mold them as they see fit (The Chronicle, October 27, 2006). And now there’s Scholarpedia, which combines Wikipedia’s open-source principles with a healthy dash of peer review.
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