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

[MuZemike]

Why does Conservapedia come to mind :)

-MuZemike

On 4/7/2011 7:03 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
> You should be careful what you wish for. It's not hard to make a
> 'viable competitor' encyclopedia that would be so corrupt and
> inaccurate it would make the Fox News network... look like a news
> network. And if it was glossy and facile enough, plenty of people
> would probably be dumb enough to use it.
>
> On 07/04/2011, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Larry Sanger started Citizendium with a detailed plan for precisely
>> how it would work, which he detailed in a Slashdot article in 2005 and
>> kept firmly to. This produced the weird phenomenon where he treated
>> user suggestions like they were *threats*. I just read a Paul Graham
>> article which contains a line summing up the problem here:
>>
>>      If you want a recipe for a startup that's going to die, here it
>> is: a couple of founders who have some great idea they know everyone
>> is going to love, and that's what they're going to build, no matter
>> what.
>>
>> Knowino (and Argopedia, and the survivors of Citizendium, and everyone
>> in fact) needs to look at this and see what they can do. Is there room
>> in the encyclopedia game? I sure hope so. How do you beat Wikipedia?
>> Work like a startup. Wikipedia now changes at dinosaur pace and seems
>> utterly unable to solve the problems it knows it has, let alone the
>> ones it doesn't. If room to zip around it exists, something small
>> enough to be nimble can find it.
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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