[Wikimediauk-l] Competing with Wikipedia (was: new book on Wikipedia)

There are sites that can successfully co-exist with Wikipedia, either by focusing on a niche area that is out of scope for Wikipedia (almost everything at Wikia for example), or by having a different philosophy (e.g. Rational Wiki), or some combination of the two (e.g. TV Tropes). Not all are successful though (e.g. Conservapedia). Where sites have tried to occupy the same ground as Wikipedia (e.g Citizendium) they generally either fail completely or wither and linger. You could argue that Baidu is an exception, but I think it really falls into the first group - it's niche is being acceptable to the Chinese government. For a time the Enciclopedia Libre [1] was out-competing the Spanish Wikipedia, but that didn't last. I can't really think of any other examples of successful competition to Wikipedia on the same ground. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre_Universal_en_Espa%C3%B1ol On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, HJ Mitchell wrote: ---- Chris McKenna cmckenna(a)sucs.org www.sucs.org/~cmckenna The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart Antoine de Saint Exupery