On 07/04/2011 19:26, David Gerard wrote: <snip> > Knowino (and Argopedia, and the survivors of Citizendium, and everyone > in fact) needs to look at this and see what they can do. Is there room > in the encyclopedia game? I sure hope so. How do you beat Wikipedia? > Work like a startup. Wikipedia now changes at dinosaur pace and seems > utterly unable to solve the problems it knows it has, let alone the > ones it doesn't. If room to zip around it exists, something small > enough to be nimble can find it. Of course the niches are there. The real question is more like this: you have to avoid the "general" encyclopedia market for the "general reader". So what do you set out to do? One idea is to have a forum as front end, and a team of editors who collate material from the forum as back end. This was pretty much the theory of the first wiki I worked on (except the forum was a newsgroup). The Web is full of transient material, and specialised discussions, and all you really need is some working understanding of what kind of "collation" is worthwhile.
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