Business your connection to The Boston Globe  Wikipedia
competitor seeks to cut out errors  Citizendium plans to launch
this week  Among stacks of reference books, Larry Sanger,
considered by many a cofounder of Wikipedia, has plotted a
competitor to the popular online encyclopedia:, a new go-to
website for general information.  In just six years, Wikipedia
has mushroomed into one of the Web's most astonishing successes,
with 1.7 million articles in English alone. The downside is that
the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile
vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane.
To Wikipedia fans, these blemishes are an unavoidable -- and
relatively small -- price to pay for the dazzling breadth
spawned by its "anyone can edit" open design.  But Larry Sanger
doesn't buy it. To Sanger -- who was present at the creation of
Wikipedia (in fact, call him a co founder, although that, like
many things within Wikipedia, is disputed) -- its charms seem to
outweigh its warts simply because