Stanford's Academic Alternative to Wikipedia

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu

From the article:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/september/encyclopedia-philosophy-090710.html

Edward Zalta, the principal editor and senior research scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information:

"...while virtually anyone can contribute to Wikipedia and alter the text, 120 leading philosophers from around the world oversee contributions to the Stanford project, and its advisory board is the Stanford Department of Philosophy. No one can alter text without passing through several layers of approval...Our model is authoritative...Their model is one an academic isn't going to be attracted to. If you are a young academic, who might spend six months preparing a great article on Thomas Aquinas, you're not going to publish in a place where anyone can come along and change this."

Example article on Human/Non-Human Chimaras:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chimeras/