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		gojomo on Aug 24, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rise of the wikicrats So many startups gunning for Google; perhaps some should be gunning for Wikipedia -- which I love but seems at risk of retreating into paranoid orthodoxy in response to scaling and spamming threats.

adamdoupe on Aug 24, 2007 [–]

One of the Wikipedia founders has created his own version:

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page

The basic idea is to establish experts that review articles and guarantee the quality of the articles in their domain. Seems like an interesting idea.

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