Sunday, December 2, 2007

Bloglines - A MOREAUTHORITATIVE ALTERNATIVE TO WIKIPEDIA

Bloglines user mmwong@u.washington.edu has sent this item to you, with the following personal message:

What do you think about this Veropedia? Do you think it's the "answer"?


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A MOREAUTHORITATIVE ALTERNATIVE TO WIKIPEDIA

By Ms. OPL

Veropedia "is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited." It is not competing with Wikipedia—they "prefer to think of [themselves] as a meta-layer, highlighting the best that Wikipedia has to offer." There are two types of links, green (already verified)


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