Comments on: Jimmy Wales Quietly Launches Wikianswers

By: منتديات

منتديات — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:42:57 +0000

With all the answer sites out there, I think every question in the universe has indeed been answered already…

By: مركز تحميل

مركز تحميل — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:41:27 +0000

This is another good project. But will this really click?

By: Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers - BlogAngle

Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers - BlogAngle — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:00:12 +0000

[...] Found An Audience For Wikianswers Jul 30 Technology When Jimmy Wales & co earlier this year quietly added Wikianswers to the host of products launched under the Wikia umbrella, we weren’t the only [...]

By: Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers | nuze.me

Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers | nuze.me — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:17:18 +0000

[...] Jimmy Wales & co earlier this year quietly added Wikianswers to the host of products launched under the Wikia umbrella, we weren’t the only [...]

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:37:44 +0000

[...] Jimmy Wales & co earlier this year quietly added Wikianswers to the host of products launched under the Wikia umbrella, we weren’t the only ones [...]

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:37:44 +0000

[...] Jimmy Wales & co earlier this year quietly added Wikianswers to the host of products launched under the Wikia umbrella, we weren’t the only ones [...]

By: Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers

Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:44:28 +0000

[...] Jimmy Wales & co earlier this year quietly added Wikianswers to the host of products launched under the Wikia umbrella, we weren’t the only [...]

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A List Of African Tech Startups Which…Sob, Died. – — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:30:27 +0000

[...] on its main Wikia service for building wikis, as well as Wikianswers, a Q&A service which launched earlier this year and also faces stiff competition, but not from [...]

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:02:30 +0000

The ask and answer business model for websites is not bad but i believe it fit best into niche sites then ones for a lot of content about diferente things. Focus is the key.

By: Jimmy Wales Deadpools Wikia Search | Recopylator

Jimmy Wales Deadpools Wikia Search | Recopylator — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:21:11 +0000

[...] on its main Wikia service for building wikis, as well as Wikianswers, a Q&A service which launched earlier this year and also faces stiff competition, but not from [...]

By: goit

goit — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:47:56 +0000

A radical change in Q&A comes when a computer system understands your question and finds out a possible answer from data/information found in the Internet.

Imagine this you write your question to google and goolge comes with answers right there.

By: Chandler

Chandler — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:59:16 +0000

wiki sirs

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By: Technology PR

Technology PR — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:26:31 +0000

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 – - See http://www.nost...ecord-straight/ ;

Full Text below:

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 US visitors in December, according to comScore; over 2 million registered users; and over 500 volunteer supervisors.

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

By: Boycott Novell » Links 02/02/2009: Venezuela Hugs ODF, F/OSS Used by 75% of in APAC Developers

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:28:04 +0000

[...] Jimmy Wales Quietly Launches Wikianswers Here’s a question for you. How many Q&A sites does the Web really need? Already, there is Yahoo Answers, WikiAnswers, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin Answers, ChaCha and dozens beyond. But Wikia (and Wikipedia) co-founder Jimmy Wales thinks there is room for one more. [...]

By: Sam Spector

Sam Spector — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:32:41 +0000

Maybe Wales stole the name and the Q&A concept his company burned burning through all that vc money. http://valleywa...ercent-of-staff

By: Abelena

Abelena — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:04:10 +0000

“Anyone can contribute (other answers sites require you to register)”

that is not true there are loads of other sites such as MaybeNow.com allow you to answer, contribute and involve in discussions all without logging in. it’s not how many question answer sites you can have in the market because the next trend forming is based on being able to find answers to your questions and there will be loads of new sites that will hit the cyber world. if you look at unanswered questions on yahoo answers, or any other related sites; there are more unanswered questions than the ones with an answer. I don’t call providing irrelevant answers as an answered question.

If there are millions of unanswered questions; supply and demand suggests, there is more demand less supply in the market currently.

By: Designer

Designer — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:08:15 +0000

will surely check out the site

By: Chris Desouza

Chris Desouza — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:57:10 +0000

Let the market decide how many of what and which stands the test of time. Should there be no competition to Techcrunch?

Most of the web and chatter that comes with it is useless anyways.

By: Cole Lootz

Cole Lootz — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:41:06 +0000

This is another good project. But will this really click?

By: Jimmy Wales Quietly Launches Wikianswers | 226bw Tech News Blog

Jimmy Wales Quietly Launches Wikianswers | 226bw Tech News Blog — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:06:12 +0000

[...] Wikia Gil Penchina responds in comments: Wikianswers started at Wikia in November, 2004. The other site with the same name was called [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:09:02 +0000

Q&A sites tend to have a lot of Google juice and are highly monetizable because a person asking a question is goal-oriented. These sites don’t have to be destination sites at all. I think we could see an explosion of them. Cheap to produce once it’s up and running on its own.

By: Subhankar Ray

Subhankar Ray — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:14:55 +0000

If you have a question, just ask our search engine AAfter . It is a KISS.

By: Jimmy WalesがWikianswersを静かに発進

Jimmy WalesがWikianswersを静かに発進 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:32 +0000

[...] Penchinaがコメント欄でこう答えている。 [...]

By: Jimmy Wales Quietly Launches Wikianswers | Kawink Blog

Jimmy Wales Quietly Launches Wikianswers | Kawink Blog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:50:00 +0000

[...] Wikia Gil Penchina responds in comments: Wikianswers started at Wikia in November, 2004. The other site with the same name was called [...]

By: Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace Blog

Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace Blog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:03:53 +0000

Soooooooo will Jimmy Wales edit answers that he does not agree with like he edited the Wikipedia article about him?