What do you think of starting a new encyclopedia site on the internet?

United States
January 1, 2009 10:43pm CST
I don't like Wikipedia for some things, although it is helpful for learning obscure things about odd topics once in a while. However, my biggest complaint about Wikipedia is the inability to include a short article about a topic and their judgment of what topics are important. I am starting a new encyclopedia site where I can put whatever interests me on no matter how big or small the definition will be. I however will not include definitions of people say, Bob Smith who lives on 5th street in such and such a place. To include a person they have to have a somewhat significant meaning--such as they produced videos on Myspace or the same person appears multiple times when I look them up on Google. To get a personal name on it, I may put contributed by and a person's name--I suppose if the person would contribute enough entries I could include a definition of them as an important contributor. However, the point of this post is to gather information about my idea. What do you think--would my encyclopedia idea be better than using Wikipedia? After all, a topic would have more of a chance to end up in my encyclopedia web page. Post any suggestions or comments here.
5 responses
@mtsandeep (1586)
• India
2 Jan 09
Thats a good idea. best of luck for that. But to manage it, you will need more people with various interests. The success of wikipedia is reader contributions. One person will not be having enough knowledge about all topics, If you are successfull in creating a team, it will be possible. I had made a BLOG, a multi author blog, where users can register and write about various things. But i wasn't able to make it work fully due to lack of time. i was busy with my exams and now i need to find more time and help from my friends.
@mtsandeep (1586)
• India
2 Jan 09
BY the way, which platform are you using for the encyclopedia. Same wiki script or any other script?
@mtsandeep (1586)
• India
2 Jan 09
Best of luck for your project. You should find some more friends to work along so that you can make your site towards success. wikipedia is having all topics under its roof. you should also need to include all topics .
@mkmoney (468)
2 Jan 09
i thinks its a great idea but it will be hard work.
@aprilsue00 (1991)
• United States
2 Jan 09
I think that is a good idea. I hope it works for you. You will have to keep us posted on how its going and give is a link to your site. I would be interested in looking at it. I wish you the best of luck,
@cybersoft01 (1284)
• India
2 Jan 09
Well, your idea is simple great. But don't you think it's important to include interesting and important information about some of the great personalities? I find wikipedia very useful when I search for people.
@springs (923)
• India
2 Jan 09
Your idea is excellant but your encyclopedia will be limited if u post only your interested things in that site.Why can't you add things on which you are interested in the wikipedia itself then somany will get benifited and i am not discouraging your idea.If you wanna start ,start it.