Have you heard of Wiki Answers, Wikianswers. Yes it's a little confusing, but I'm not just babbling incoherently. Wikianswers is a recently (re)launched site from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.
Both sites are Q&A sites that, as Erick Schonfeld
So what answer do you get when you ask "
Wikia's Q+A service is in keeping with the wiki-way and that’s what makes it different
* The content is freely licensed under GFDL unlike other answers sites allowing it to be re-used and re-purposed by others for free
* Anyone can contribute (other answers sites require you to register)
We believe that a more open, freely licensed community will always do better than a corporate site that takes customers contributions and copyrights them in order to take rights away from the contributor...
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"At the time I sold the site to Answers Corp. and they chose to officially change the name from FAQ Farm to WikiAnswers it had hundreds of thousands of answers and millions of unique users while the Wikia Q&A site was still tiny," he continued. "'WikiAnswers' can't be trademarked because it's considered too generic a term, but WikiAnswers has been making good use of it for years. It was the fastest growing large US website in both 2007 and 2008. I can understand why Jimmy and Gil would want to imitate its success -- I was imitating the success of Wikipedia when I converted my Q&A site to a wiki in 2004 --but why imitate the WikiAnswers name?"
An interesting question. Unfortunately neither site offers an answer to that one (yet).
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