{"id":37,"date":"2012-09-06T14:09:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2012-09-06T14:09:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T14:09:59","slug":"the-biggest-news-in-the-wiki-world-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/the-biggest-news-in-the-wiki-world-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest News in the Wiki World in Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, I co-founded a wiki-based startup called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikia#ArmchairGM\">ArmchairGM<\/a>. We were acquired by Wikia in 2006, and I worked there through 2008. I&#8217;m one of few people out there who have used wikis extensively outside of the behemoth that is Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>Another group, WikiTravel, started a few years before we did, and they sold to Internet Brands in 2006. Now, the community is revolting and leaving IB for WikiMedia (which operates Wikipedia). <a href=\"http:\/\/gyrovague.com\/2012\/07\/12\/wikitravel-editors-abandon-internet-brands-join-up-with-wikipedia\/\">This post<\/a> talks about why and the potential fallout.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in understanding how online communities thrive and whither, <a href=\"http:\/\/gyrovague.com\/2012\/07\/12\/wikitravel-editors-abandon-internet-brands-join-up-with-wikipedia\/\">you really need to read that post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, I co-founded a wiki-based startup called ArmchairGM. We were acquired by Wikia in 2006, and I worked there through 2008. I&#8217;m one of few people out there who have used wikis extensively outside of the behemoth that is Wikipedia. Another group, WikiTravel, started a few years before we did, and they sold to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}