I would steal some of the better ideas from Wikia like the "hot article" lists, user polls, user avatars, and throw in some real-time collaboration software a la Etherpad.
Ryan Kaldari On 12/28/10 11:31 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > I've been inspired by the discussion David Gerard and Brion Vibber > kicked off, and I think they are headed in the right direction. > > But I just want to ask a separate, but related question. > > Let's imagine you wanted to start a rival to Wikipedia. Assume that you > are motivated by money, and that venture capitalists promise you can be > paid gazillions of dollars if you can do one, or many, of the following: > > 1 - Become a more attractive home to the WP editors. Get them to work on > your content. > > 2 - Take the free content from WP, and use it in this new system. But > make it much better, in a way Wikipedia can't match. > > 3 - Attract even more readers, or perhaps a niche group of > super-passionate readers that you can use to build a new community. > > In other words, if you had no legacy, and just wanted to build something > from zero, how would you go about creating an innovation that was > disruptive to Wikipedia, in fact something that made Wikipedia look like > Friendster or Myspace compared to Facebook? > > And there's a followup question to this -- but you're all smart people > and can guess what it is. > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
