Citizendium: A New and Better Wikipedia?

Wikipedia proves to be too wild for its founder Larry Sanger. So he recently unveiled The Next Big Thing: Citizendium to improve on his earlier Big Thing.

Citizendium about is a good read and links to "fundamentals" that detail some advantages relative to Wikipedia.

Essentially, Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um) will adhere to the following principles:

Content to be:

• accurate
• based on common experience, published, credible research, and expert opinion
• neutral in this sense
• legal and responsible
• family-friendly (i.e.content "that we wouldn't be ashamed to have our kids read.")

System to be developed and improved via:

• Collaboration
• Volunteerism
• Moderation (i.e. maintain well-defined, credible editorial committees)
• Simplicity
• Adaptivity
• Commercial-free atmosphere
• Open access contributions, improvements (but subject to review to help avoid vandalism, bias, etc.)
• Transparency (contributors, editors, etc. have to use their real names)