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quite an advanced wiki farm – an overview Michał Frąckowiak michal@wikidot.com MiniBar, London, 26 Jan 2007

Do you Wiki? Do you Wiki? ● WikiWiki = web pages you can edit! ● blogs are common, wikis are not (yet?) ● blog is a dynamical form of web existence ● the time of wikis is coming?... because wikis can do things that blogs can not?

Wiki trends Wiki trends ● Wikipedia – amazing (and growing) popularity ● what can you use a wiki for?: homepages, online colaboration, community sites, knowledge base, workspaces... ● ''let people create their own small Wikipedias!'' :-D

trends.google.com people are looking for information about Wikis Google search results for : ''wiki'': 250 000 000 ''blog'': 1 050 000 000 online blogging platforms vs. wiki platforms

Wiki market today Wiki market today ● main competition: PBWiki.com, WetPaint.com, Wikia.com, WikiSpaces.com, JotSpot.com (Google), Wiki.com ● recent inverstments: – Wikia – $3.5m + undisclosed (~10m$) from Amazonem promised R&D facility in Poznan, Poland – WetPaint – $3m + $9.5m – JotSpot – aquired by Google, undisclosed amount – Wiki.com – a domain for $2.8m, total failure ;-)

Wikidot.com Wikidot.com ● a one-man-show: – Jan 2006: development started – Apr 2006: full-time development – Aug 2006: first beta release – media: local newspapers follow up the first press release ● now: – fully-featured wiki farm, everyone is welcomed to start his/her own wiki at http:// your-wiki .wikidot.com

a Wiki killer app? a Wiki killer app? ● features != popularity, but: – clean AJAX interface, private Wikis, SSL access, members/moderators/admins, permissions, themes, editable CSS themes, forums, invitations, contact list, private messages, supported by ads (not yet), premium features (being tested), custom domain, private backups, edit locking, advanced Wiki syntax, modules (ratings, listings + a lot more), tags and tag clouds, categories, widgets from Widgetbox.com, Google Gadgets, YouTube, Flickr etc., RSS import/export, tools to manage communities! ● create a product that people need or want to use

Some stats Some stats daily ~100 new registered users, ● 2000-3000 page edits, 7 000 - 9 000 visits, 40 000 page views Jan 2007: ● > 100 000 unique visitors, > 1 000 000 page views 8 000 users, 3500 Wikis, 90 000 ● pages growing VERY fast ;-) ● powered by open-source software ● only

What do the Users think? What do the Users think? Wikidot is a superb piece of work! […] I'm using wikidot as a research tool ● to keep my ideas, articles and projects together. As a first release it's amazingly stable and fast. (zeroinfluencer) This would also have to be the best wiki farm we've ever seen. ● Congratulations on the great work! (aeSentinel) It's a nice CLEAN layout and I'm thoroughly enjoying the process. ● (nengland) When I found this, I thought’d give it a try, and just using it for a few ● days, I’m already highly impressed. This site has all the features I’d want, without the complexity of some other solutions out there. (tylermac) I've been comparing places that could host my wiki and this was the best, ● because it's usable even for a tech-[newbie] like me. (purplyana) It is one of the easiest wiki-building sites I've ever come upon. Easy to ● use features, great interface, lot's of great features, you guys have really done something special here. […] This site is just too good not to become a success. shiraz

What do they create? What do they create? ● hobby sites, homepages, traveling, student organizations Eupaco, OpenSuse (Polish Wiki), PolishLinux.org, games, RPG, MORPG, software, Linux ● private workspaces (non-public wiki + secure SSL access) ● online colaboration ● documents, coding, open-source projects, community pages ● .....

Plans for the future Plans for the future ● World domination ;-) ● expansion and improving user experience ● organic growth ● more languages (now: English + Polish) ● wiki+blog combo ● Web API ● open-source the code, code contributions ● ........ ● profit! ;-)