[WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia?

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Thu Apr 7 23:13:31 UTC 2011


> On 7 April 2011 21:56, MuZemike <muzemike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but isn't that what we have been doing
>> so
>> far (i.e. with all the other sister Wikimedia projects)?
>
>
> Yes, but also other niches Wikipedia leaves. Wikia, for example,
> started to form wikis of any sort, but has rapidly taken over the
> niche of fansite wikis.
>
>
> - d.

That's what draws a crowd. A lesson there. I still think we should eat
their lunch; I was never a deletionist.

Fred




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