Comments on: Wikianswers Q&A Site Launched by Wikia

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By: WikiAnswers.com

WikiAnswers.com — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:57:18 +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 –
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 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.

– Robert Rosenschein
CEO, Answers Corporation

By: Monsieur Referencement

Monsieur Referencement — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:09:30 +0000

Do you know if a french version will be develop like fr.answers.yahoo.com ?

By: Gregory Kohs

Gregory Kohs — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:29:23 +0000

Also, 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.

Additionally, this new Wikia answers scheme is NOT open to all. Some schmuck at Wikia blocked me from editing on any Wikia site, after I pointed out that Green Wikia was stealing copyrighted material.

By: Fact checker

Fact checker — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:37:09 +0000

Your title is misleading – this site is wholly independent from the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia.

Please don’t mix up Jimmy Wales’ own private activities with Wikipedia.

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By: Chris Whitten

Chris Whitten — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:03:26 +0000

I’m the founder of FAQ Farm, which we renamed WikiAnswers in 2007 after I sold the business to Answers.com.

FAQ Farm became a wiki in 2004 when we customized the Mediawiki software for Q&A. I was a great admirer of Wikipedia and knew that would be a great way to enhance collaboration.

One correction: WikiAnswers has always allowed anonymous questions and answers. You don’t need to register to contribute. You just need to register to edit existing questions and answers.

See http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiAnswers for more of the history.