Of course, you have to remember that Wikipedia is a top 10 website. Wikia is a top 200 website. "hot article"s just don't scale that well to a wiki like Wikipedia. It's fundamentally flawed.
On the flip side, an Etherpad-like feature would be nice. -X! On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > 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 > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
