Wikipedia, the online editable source for all kinds of information, now has a new competitor. Citizendium has been launched as an Citizendiumalternative to Wikipedia with Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia’s founders, at the helm of this particular venture.

As an online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been wildly successful with more than 1.7 million English articles in its database according to news stories. However, Wikipedia has been problematic from the start as it is subject to abuse due to its open edit design. In addition, Wikipedia’s volunteers do not have to identify who they are, casting some of its information in doubt. With Citizendium, which will also be nonprofit and ad free, volunteers will have to disclose who they are when making edits.

I don’t use Wikipedia as a source for citation, but I will consider Citizendium as long as its editorial integrity is upheld.