citizendium.org hoping to dethrone the wikipedia

[Esopo]

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance.  It will begin life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia.  But we expect it to take on a life of its own and, perhaps, to become the flagship of a new set of responsibly-managed free knowledge projects.

http://www.citizendium.org/

It basically sets out to be a Wikipedia with a better control over user contributions.

[COBOLdinosaur]

Yes of course a natural fork that happens to all successful non-profit ideas. 

First we get the intellectual Nazis who will decide waht may or may not be published, and how it must be presented.  They have an easy sell to find marketerss who will be ewilling to put ads on the content, as long as it remains "neutral".

The final piece for launch is the whores who will now deliver what is required if the price is right. 

It will und up with a lot of high quality copy designed to support the view of whomever pays to have it published.  Not overnight mind you.  It will take a year or two before it becomes apparent what it is; another attempt to provide real information corrupted by advertising, promotion and greed.

If these people really cared about the quality of information and the intergrity of the information, they would be working from inside wikipedia to bring about change; or they would be presenting a non-profit alternative approach, instead of pulling the same kind of crap we see from other idea ripoff sites like Netscape.

Mind you I don't have any real issue with copycats, however I do question credibility of things like this that will manage the information , puts ads on the pages and claim to be unbiased.  Not going to happen in this universe.  The site will carry content that has the approval of the advertisers or it will go broke.