But I think that Citizendium will present its own problems:

* Despite their claims that anybody will be able to post, I think that academicians will be privileged and people w/o much formal education will be frozen out, and that brings up race and class issues;

* It seems impossible for non-academicians to become editors;

* Just because editors are acamedicians with advanced degrees, doesn’t mean that they will be without prejudices. Example - can you imaging Michael Bailey, Janice Raymond, Mary Daly, or some other Ph.D. bearing transphobe being the editor of articles on trans issues? Or, more subtly, someone who has 100% social-constructionist views about gender refusing to approve articles that claim an inherent gender identity outside of social influences.

* Similarly, editors who are members of privileged groups that dominate a subject matter will tend to shut down people who are not of that privileged group. Example: The field of evolutionary biology is dominated by men, hence editors will mostly be male, and articles by women will be suppressed. (This is pointed out by Joan Roughgarden in her book “Evolution’s Rainbow”).

I think that Citizendium is just going to replace one set of problems with another.