In the best case scenario for top-down Wikipedia, it would have been Google Knol. That was where they were going when it was nominally a startup founded by a gu

In the best case scenario for top-down Wikipedia, it would have been Google Knol. That was where they were going when it was nominally a startup founded by a guy whose previous venture had been an online men’s magazine. But then the community revolted. We all know what a successful startup looks like. But I feel that the internet lacks criteria for a community like Wikipedia. Or for that matter, the chan sites. The tech can be almost ludicrously out of date, the design can be bland, the programmers sub-par, changes roll out over years rather than days, and yet it can have an unstoppable and highly influential community.