The Guardian: Wikipedia Reaches a Fork in the Road--And Takes It

"One of Wikipedia's founders, Larry Sanger, says he plans to rewrite it--as Citizendium, a 'citizens' compendium.' To succeed, he will probably need to attract many of the people who contribute, or used to contribute, to Wikipedia. But whether the 'new Wikipedia' will avoid the problems of the old one, or just create new ones of its own, remains to be seen.

"Wikipedia has been amazingly successful, fostering the production of a huge database with a surprising level of quality and accuracy. Google's PageRank system for determining the order of search results makes Wikipedia pages very prominent in Google, and rival search engines also afford them a level of authority they don't always deserve..."

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