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

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:26:41 -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:

> 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.

One time I can recall that such a situation came up was during the 
Super Bowl halftime a couple of years ago; somebody I was watching it 
with started wondering how old Bruce Springsteen (the feature 
performer there) was, so I grabbed my iPhone and looked it up through 
a Wikipedia app.  Unfortunately, the page had just been vandalized to 
alter his birthdate to be 10 years earlier than it really was, so I 
got a wrong answer.


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