<CPOV> The notion that Wikipedia will always be top dog

[Juliana Brunello]

> Are you certain, absolutely certain, that Wikipedia will rule the
> Internet encyclopedia biz in 10 years' time?

Important point. Specially in the case of Ilmpedia, where there is a huge
amount of people with the same belief and therefore a large amount of
possible contributors to the project. I don't think it will be a minor
encyclopedia fork like citizendium or the spanish fork. It actually has
great potential. Imagine all arab countries, which have a lot of their
culture in common and conflicting povs with the 'western' countries...
this could be just the beginning of a major separatist movement, not only
in the internet. Am I being too dramatic?

Juliana


> andrew.famiglietti at lcc.gatech.edu said:
>
> It is unlikely that these forks of Wikipedia will ever attract
> significant traffic. Larry Sanger's Citizendium, a fairly
> well-established parallel encyclopedia project, is ranked by Alexa as
> the 48,837th most visited website. Wikipedia is the 6th most visited
> website. Enciclopedia Libre Universal (EL), the product of the famous
> Spanish Fork of 2002, was outstripped in article production by the
> Spanish Wikipedia as of 2004. Wikipedia is in the top ten most visited
> websites in Mexico, Colombia, and Spain. EL does not appear in Alexa
> listings for the top 100 most visited Websites for these countries.
> Without traffic, a volunteer based project cannot attract volunteer
> labor, and thus cannot add and revise content. I wouldn't worry about
> fragmentation.
>
> +++++++
>
> Back when I was done with graduate school and beginning to land my
> first $50,000 marketing research projects, I remember when 90% of
> online search was dominated by three sites.  No, not Google and Yahoo
> and Bing.  Sites called AltaVista and WebCrawler and Lycos.
>
> Are you certain, absolutely certain, that Wikipedia will rule the
> Internet encyclopedia biz in 10 years' time?
>
> Greg
>
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