Setting up your own wiki encyclopaedia Options

[A User]

Can anyone recommend any sites that show step by step how to set up your own wiki encyclopaedia?

[wikademia.org]

you do know about Encyc.org, right?!

[A User]

you do know about Encyc.org, right?!

I don't think Encyc.org will challenge wikipedia anytime soon. All their articles are basically one to two sentence stubs.

[thekohser]

I don't think Encyc.org will challenge wikipedia anytime soon. All their articles are basically one to two sentence stubs.

WikiWatch, who are you? (If you're disclosing.)

What are you trying to accomplish? Trying to challenge Wikipedia with an alternate venue? Do you have at least $1,000,000? Because those are the bare minimum table stakes to create a site that will get into the Alexa 1000.

What is your unique proposition that will make your site a challenge to Wikipedia?

On my site, I dreamed optimistically that editors' "ownership" of articles about yourself or your business, plus transitory ownership of articles about other legal entities, coupled with the ability to earn AdSense revenues (keeping 100% of them for themselves), topped off with the wonders of Semantic Web architecture for search engine optimization and internal multi-layered search capabilities, would have me at 3% of Wikipedia's market share within two years.

Well, after two years, my site earns 0.000856% of the English Wikipedia's page traffic, as the 37,789th most visited site on the Internet, among Americans.

Although (according to Alexa), my site has a wider global reach than the web home of the Brazilian government (brasil.gov.br), as well as the home page of the 10th largest company in America (Valero.com).

So, while you're pooh-poohing Encyc.org, let me just say that your asking how to install wiki software suggests to me that you likewise don't have what it takes to "challenge Wikipedia anytime soon".

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[anthony]

Well, after two years, my site earns 0.000856% of the English Wikipedia's page traffic, as the 37,789th most visited site on the Internet, among Americans.

Ha, did you know you're more popular than Citizendium?

[DawnofMan]

Would someone just hurry up and create an alternate Wiki where I can start working on articles without having to deal with all of Wikipedia's trolls and tyrants (ie. admins and arbcons).

Kohs's site seems to be about self-promotion and Neutralpedia is so far only about climate issues. I don't like the citizendium model and am not prepared to give up my anonymity to work with a bunch of self-appointed "experts". One Willy Connelly is bad enough.

[Emperor]

Would someone just hurry up and create an alternate Wiki where I can start working on articles without having to deal with all of Wikipedia's trolls and tyrants (ie. admins and arbcons).

Kohs's site seems to be about self-promotion and Neutralpedia is so far only about climate issues. I don't like the citizendium model and am not prepared to give up my anonymity to work with a bunch of self-appointed "experts". One Willy Connelly is bad enough.

Here is your engraved invitation. Please come to Encyc and start working on articles.

http://encyc.org/wiki