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

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Apr 8 08:32:03 UTC 2011


On 04/07/11 5:03 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.
>
That would be great!  Maybe Fox News itself can pick up the idea. Their 
accuracy and corruption is not our responsibility. If they're bad 
enough, that will make us look better.

Ec



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