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Citizendium is a new encyclopedia project founded by a co-founder of Wikipedia. There, the editors do disclose who they are in real life. You probably donated to Wikipedia last year, so why not spread the wealth to new projects like Citizendium this year?  

Citizendium is a new encyclopedia project founded by a co-founder of Wikipedia. There, the editors do disclose who they are in real life. You probably donated to Wikipedia last year, so why not spread the wealth to new projects like Citizendium this year?  

==7. Wikipedia alleged that Brazil, Israel, and Saudi Arabia practice apartheid.==

==7. They don't get the jobs done==

Do you live in Brazil, Israel, or Saudi Arabia? Wikipedia has gone to painstaking detail to host articles about how your countries allegedly practice apartheid. If that's how you want your country described for the rest of the world, get out your checkbook.

There have been a number of Wikipedia projects or initiatives that have been launched with at least some fanfare and/or promise that they are important and that they will be carried out.

 

 

* We are still waiting for Flagged Revisions implementation on English Wikipedia (a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Flagged_revisions/Sighted_versions&diff=prev&oldid=154463978 dream] since August 2007, a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=261790016 suggestion] since January 2009, a Foundation-level [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=265584048 proposal] since January 2009, and a call to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Advisory_Council_on_Project_Development/Forum&diff=prev&oldid=302095508 raise hell] if not implemented by September 25, 2009).

* [http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/wikivoices-episode-45/4hmquk6fx4gu/378# Release of Episode 45] on Wikivoices is permanently suppressed.  (So volatile an issue, we are [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Wikivoices&diff=next&oldid=316384628 forbidden] to even discuss it on Wikipedia.

* WMF staff member Rand Montoya's 2009 Fundraising Survey never launched in 2009.  Repeated asks for status updates went ignored for several months.  Even a Foundation-level inquiry has been [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-December/056376.html met with silence].

* A [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=2902 quality, not quantity] drive in 2006, as well as the post-Essjay "[http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=7090 Credentials Verification]" boondoggle of 2007 were announced to great fanfare in the tech media, but once Jimbo Wales and his crew got the public relations boost they wanted, the initiatives themselves just vanished.

* A WikiProject of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists_of_topics topic lists] has existed since November 2007, but it is still half unfinished.

==8. Wikipedia pollutes the minds of children.==

==8. Wikipedia pollutes the minds of children.==