Wikianswers launched by Wikipedia founder
February 2nd, 2009 Leave a comment Visited 53 times, 1 so far today
Wikianswers launched by Wikipedia founder
Wikianswers is the latest Questions and Answers site on the web which is now available to general web audience.
It has been launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
We already have tons of other players in this market including Yahoo Answers, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin Answers, ChaCha.
Wikianswers is based on the same platform as Wikia.
We played around with this new service and did not like what we saw.
It is unlikely to become a popular hub for people unless they make some drastic changes.
Any new question put on the site becomes a new page on the service! No searching!
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February 2nd, 2009 at 07:06 am
Please don’t bestow the title of “founder” on Jimmy Wales. As with most things in his career, he relied on the hard work of others (in this case, Dr. Larry Sanger) to get things started, then he runs them out of town and takes credit himself.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 pm
In listing the “tons of other players” you left out *WikiAnswers*.
I started this Q&A wiki back in 2002. At the time it was called FAQ Farm, but I did register the domain WikiAnswers.com. When I sold the site to Answers Corp in November 2006 they decided to officially change the name to WikiAnswers. See http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiAnswers for its history.
WikiAnswers is now the second largest Q&A site after Yahoo and was the fastest growing large US site in both 2007 and 2008.
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Bob Rosenschein, CEO of Answers Corporation (owners of reference site Answers.com and Q&A site WikiAnswers.com) had this to say regarding Wikia’s site with the same name –
http://www.nostupidanswers.com/2009/02/03/wikianswers-setting-the-record-straight/
Full Text:
WikiAnswers: setting the record straight.
We are admirers of Jimmy Wales but must set the record straight about the recent statement on Wikia’s site that he is the “founder of Wikianswers”.
Wikia’s Answers category is indeed one of thousands of wikis on its site, right between Ansible and Anthony Trollope. It started in November 2004 and had almost no activity for the past four years. By August 2007, the site had a total of 17 answers. By their launch last week, there were about 1,000. The site remains very small, despite their seeding thousands of unanswered questions last week.
In June of 2004, an entrepreneur named Chris Whitten bought the domain http://www.wikianswers.com. He pointed it to his user-generated Q&A site, then known as FAQ Farm. A vibrant community of passionate contributors formed and did a fantastic job answering questions. By the time Chris sold FAQ Farm and wikianswers.com to us in November 2006, the site already had 280,000 questions and 200,000 answers. Shortly thereafter, we re-named the product WikiAnswers.
True to Chris’ vision, our goal is to create the world’s greatest question and answer site. We are well on our way, and the numbers tell the story best: over 8,000,000 questions (35,000 new ones every day); over 3,000,000 answers (10,000 new every day); 16.5 million unique visitors in the US and 26.7 worldwide in December, according to comScore; over 2 million registered users; and over 500 volunteer supervisors. 16.5 million unique visitors in the US and 26.7 worldwide in December, according to comScore; We do agree with Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia Inc., that “there is room for many organizations to be successful in organizing human knowledge.” However, Wikia is creating market confusion by associating its Q&A category with our market-leading WikiAnswers domain and site.
I would like to thank WikiAnswers founder Chris Whitten and the community that he started for their wonderful efforts building WikiAnswers. We have much to be proud of. According to comScore, by percentage growth,WikiAnswers.com was the fastest growing top 200 US domain for all of 2008.
– Robert Rosenschein
CEO, Answers Corporation