Citizendium aims to be a more reliable version of Wikipedia
In six short years, Wikipedia amassed 1.7 million articles in English and became a can't-live-without reference tool for millions of people.
But the free encyclopedia, which is edited by volunteers and citizens, has endured vandalism and generated embarrassing errors. To Wikipedia fans, these errors are small, and they say the Wikipedia community fixes what's broken.
But Larry Sanger, a Wikipedia co-founder who left the community in 2003, says Wikipedia is broken. He's just taken the wraps off a new Wikipedia alternative called Citizendium. Unlike Wikipedia, Citizendium's volunteer contributors will be expected to provide their real names. Experts in given fields will be asked to check articles for accuracy.
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