On 3/16/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.kefk.org/portal/webtravel/china/fenster.yuyuan-gaerten.shanghai (maybe a german speaker can tell me something about this site?)
The "Kefk Network" (first time I've heard of it, actually) apparently is a network of news and hierarchically organized articles, focusing on tech (like slashdot) and related politics and social stuff, but also some "classic" cultural things like photography, video, and classical singing(!).
They claim their structure to be superior to wikis (using wikipedia as an example) through "semantic features" (didn't check for these) and hierarchy-based article structure (claimed to be superior to our category system). They claim to be around since the 1990.
They emphasize FOSS and community aspects, so they apparently want to be friendly competition. They finance themselves through ads/affiliate programs with Amazon and others.
The name Kefk stems from C. J. Cherryhs Alliance/ Union Universe-cycle.
de.wikipedia links to a few of their articles.
More than you wanted to know, probably ;-)
Magnus