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

[Ray Saintonge]

On 04/07/11 4:13 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> 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.
> That's what draws a crowd. A lesson there. I still think we should eat
> their lunch; I was never a deletionist.
>

I confess that when my wife and I are sitting in front of the TV, and a 
question arises from whatever we are watching, Wikipedia's relevant 
articles become a first source of information on our laptops while we're 
watching. When we do that we seldom feel the need to follow the sources.

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