When Wikipedia was launched I was one of the skeptics who thought that an encyclopedia that anyone could change would never work. It's proved to be a remarkable success, however and was recently judged to be nearly as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica. One of Wikipedia's founders, Larry Sanger, will launch an online encyclopedia to be policed by experts in the new year.
"Digital Universe aims to garner the best of both worlds: harness wide public input, but with acknowledged experts acting as stewards.
The project has a long list of institutions signed up, including the National Council for Science and the Environment, the American Museum of Natural History, the World Resources Institute, the UN and UCB."
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