There are sites that can successfully co-exist with Wikipedia, either by
focusing on a niche area that is out of scope for Wikipedia (almost
everything at Wikia for example), or by having a different philosophy
(e.g. Rational Wiki), or some combination of the two (e.g. TV Tropes). Not
all are successful though (e.g. Conservapedia).
Where sites have tried to occupy the same ground as Wikipedia (e.g
Citizendium) they generally either fail completely or wither and linger.
You could argue that Baidu is an exception, but I think it really falls
into the first group - it's niche is being acceptable to the Chinese
government.
For a time the Enciclopedia Libre [1] was out-competing the Spanish
Wikipedia, but that didn't last. I can't really think of any other
examples of successful competition to Wikipedia on the same ground.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre_Universal_en_Espa%C3%B1ol
On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, HJ Mitchell wrote:
Competing with Wikipedia (replying to Fabian; sorry for breaking the threading)
always struck me as being a bit like arguing with yourself. Wikipedia is far
from flawless (as a concept, as a project, or as an encyclopaedia), but the
whole point of it is to collect and distribute information for free. What's to
compete *with*?
Harry Mitchellhttp://enwp.org/User:HJ
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From: Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com>
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] new book on Wikipedia
On 02/01/15 16:04, Simon Knight wrote:
Might be of interest.
Indeedy!
:-)
Gordo
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