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

[Elad Wieder]

Putting aside any possible drama, my concern is about the break in the
discourse caused by such separatism; the damage is double-sided: each of the
communities keep "convincing the convinced", deepening the arguments but
not broadening the discussion. This, in turn, might cause greater
misunderstandings re the other PoV and further frustration from trying to
present one's views to people with other views.

Elad

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:14, Juliana Brunello <juliana at networkcultures.org
> wrote:

> > 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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