I certainly will be contributing articles to www.wikia.com ,as I am sure that there is always a need for more online encyclopaedias where numismatists can utilise their knowledge. Aidan.
Drusus,that is because the founder of Wikipedia,Jimmy Wales,also has built up that one as well.I am hoping that the Wikipedia P.C. brigade don't take their rubbish onto Wikia. Aidan.
Current way of sorting infomation from what is right to what is junk is still not clear yet. Until this issue is fully resolved, infomation is nothing but questionable materials unless it's fully researched, not just quoted from various numismatic materials. Obviously, online encyclopedias do have plenty of faults and smaller ones like mentioned here don't stand much chances having enough decent infomation (hence redundent) unless they are of full good articles, which unfortunately, I don't see how it's going to be numismatic related. Current wikipedia do have vague infomation but to make it more specific, I'm not too sure how you are going to address specific copyright holders etc. Frankly speaking, the more infomation out there it is, the more useless infomation becomes as you don't have to search through 10,000+ websites just for one topic.
Gxseries,anyone can sign up to be an editor.If you know things about Russian coins,for example,then you could put your thinking cap on & write an article about the coins of Russia & the U.S.S.R. I've already written my first article on there.It is about the Rubber Export Coupons of the Federated Malay States,which resemble banknotes very strongly,as do postal orders. Aidan.
At least you have the option to go through the "Discussion" of every Wikipedia article and see the comments there. That is also the problem with relatively small sites: If somebody uses a Wikipedia article to express very biased views, that will have effects in the discussion (and ultimately the article) fairly soon. With a similarly structured but smaller community, that is likely to be different. FWIW, here is a German language Numispedia http://www.numispedia.de/Hauptseite ... and this is the "dollar" article from a fun "pedia-parody" site: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Dollar Christian
The problem I have with the entire concept is that anyone, but anyone can write anything they think or believe to be true and post it to the site. To me, this is rediculous. I will grant you, there is a lot of good information to be found on Wikipedia sites, but there is also a lot of bad and downright wrong information to be found as well. But how is the casual user to know bad from good - right from wrong ? No, I'm sorry - I have little use for such encyclopedia web sites and neither will I participate on them.
