But Larry Sanger is optimitic and going big on Citizendium, the expert-moderated alternative to the "open" encyclopedia Wikipedia incidentally which also he launched a year ago with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia.
The results so far are modest: 3,700 articles since Novemeber 2006, compared to more than 2 million on Wikipedia. But the key difference is quality. The articles are moderated and approved, making them reliable.
It overcomes the biggest drawback that Wikipedia has - its lack of authenticity.
Moreover it also pins down the author and editor of each article, this allows for exchange of information between commentators and most importantly gets these informers accountable for the information they put up.
On the slow progress that Citizendium is making given the sheer volume of information available, Mr Sanger, is unfazed, as he comments: "At some point, possibly very soon, the Citizendium will grow explosively - say, quadruple the number of its active contributors, or even grow by an order of magnitude. And it will experience that growth over the course of a month or two, and its growth will continue to accelerate from that higher rate."
Well, he is right about the 'Tipping Point'.
The numbers of articles and users will grow exponentially, and I sure hope he gets the formula right.
I would though ask Larry Sanger to reconsider the present connotation 'Citizendium'.
Keep it simple, Larry, people don't want to go through an encyclopedia to find out about 'Citizendium'. If we can't pronounce it, there is a chance that we can't spell it, just too many phonetics.
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