[WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

[WereSpielChequers]

There is a difference between hosting a site and running a site.
Jimmy's company wikia hosts a number of sites including Liberapedia -
http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page None of the various
conservative sites seem to use wikia, unless that is Wikia allows
sites to use their own domain name? Wikkii is definitely a rival to
Wikia. They all seem to use wiki technology. I wonder if they are
deliberately avoiding the indirect connection to Wikipedia by doing
business with our founder?

Interestingly only Liberapedia and one of the conservative sites,
http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/Main_Page are actually open for
editing. Conservapedia  http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
currently comes up as a 404 and
http://conservapedia.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page allows you to create an
account, but not to edit, not even to edit your own talkpage....

Has anyone done a study of these various sites to see if any have had
a measure of success without allowing IP editing?

As EN Wiki looks like rising the drawbridge to the extent of only
allowing autoconfimred accounts to create new articles, it would be
interesting to know if any  successful sites are that restrictive.

WereSpielChequers

On 9 April 2011 00:08, Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 15:57, Bob the Wikipedian
> <bobthewikipedian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Already been done, Conservapedia. The most disgusting mockery of
>> conservatives I've ever seen. Then again, isn't this one of the sites
>> Jimbo runs?
>>
> Definitely not.
>
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