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Wikipedia Founder Introduces Wiki Magazine Sites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki-world dept.

KingJawa writes "Wikipedia blew away Encyclopedia Brittanica, but can the model be used to upset the magazine industry? Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, thinks so. His company, Wikia, today announced three open-source magazine-style sites where users can write about news, opinion and gossip — one magazine wiki each for politics, entertainment, and local interests. Each open-source magazine hands total editorial control to the readers, allowing them to read, write, edit, and dictate the editorial feel for each topic."

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  1. FIST SPORT! by ringbarer · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet more irrefutable evidence that Wikipedia is nothing more than the outpouring of self-obsessed blowhards and their fixation on pointless trivia.

    --
    "Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
  2. Political Wiki preview by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Democ-rats suxxxxxx0rz, confederacy rules OK!!!!!!11!!!

    NO YUO

    GEORGE BUSH IS TEH DEBEL!!!!!!!!!!eleventy-one!!


    In Soviet Russia, Bruce Schneier facts yuo!!!
  3. bit;ch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    things I still Mr. Raymond's national gay nigger chaanel, you might and personal and easy - only

  4. Oh dear by Dr.+Kinbote · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wikipedia "blew away" "Encyclopedia Brittanica"? Not only
    do you not know what you're talking about, you don't know
    how to spell it. What an utterly asinine statement.