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"Rival" is a strong word. Nothing Jimmy Wales touches ever amounts to anything.

• arthurcolle 7y ago
  Except maybe Wikipedia?
  • bawolff 7y ago
    Also fandom (aka wikia, aka wikicities) Although i agree he's had a lot of underwhelming projects, and i dont see anything particularly special with this one
• WhyKill 7y ago
  yeah that wiki thing never amounted to anything more than being the ninth most popular website.
  • fgnkj 7y ago
    Yeah... talk to me when it's the first. Until then...
  • davidy123 7y ago
    I think it is way more than the "ninth most popular website." I'm quite sure the Web would be a very different place if it hadn't existed. In fact, I would rank Wikipedia alongside the Web and perhaps the Internet. Not only did it establish that information about nearly everything would be available free and without commercial motivations (obviously, with tremendous caveats, but still far closer to those ideals than any of its contemporaries), it also provides an incredible corpus that is the basis of many machine learning approaches. With the excuses people make on a daily basis, there's no assurance something like Wikipedia would have happened the same way. And it continues to develop important projects. Separately, Wales doesn't deserve all the credit, but I just can't leave that the summary of "Wikipedia" is it's "almost as popular as Facebook."