Wikipedia

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What do you think of Wikipedia?

If you were in charge of a project to create something like Wikipedia, but better, what would you create?

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Given that Wikipedia already exists, all I can think of is a Metapedia - something that trawls published sources for salient facts and notes where they all agree or where there is disagreement, with links to the original sources.

Failing that, a way of distinguishing fact from opinion (anything answering the question 'why' and not related to a hard science counts as opinion), so you could have the 'Metro' version of "$event happened on $date and Xpeople died. $quote1, $quote2", and the extended article which suggests reasons and would be the contentious part ('Evening Standard' version)