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submission
KingJawa writes:
Last month, Jimmy Wales' Wikia.com announced their assault on the magazine industry. Now Wales is going right at geek culture mags — specifically, at the computer and video gaming world. Can his wiki-magazine products topple the experts?
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KingJawa writes:
Wikipedia blew away Encyclopedia Brittanica, but can the model be used to upset the magazine industry? Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, thinks so. His company, Wikia, today announced three open-source magazine-style sites where users can write about news, opinion and gossip — one magazine wiki each for politics, entertainment, and local interests. Each open-source magazine hands total editorial control to the readers, allowing them to read, write, edit, and dictate the editorial feel for each topic.
