idea – a Wiki novel – Rick McCharles

Has this been done?

Has an author posted a novel online. Then encouraged readers to “improve” it as they do a Wikipedia article?

It would be a HIT online.

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It could not compete against an open source, free competitor.

Microsoft initiated Encarta by purchasing non-exclusive rights to the Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia, incorporating it into its first edition in 1993. …

In the late 1990s, Microsoft bought Collier’s Encyclopedia and New Merit Scholar’s Encyclopedia from Macmillan and incorporated them into Encarta. Thus the current Microsoft Encarta can be considered the successor of the Funk and Wagnalls, Collier, and New Merit Scholar encyclopedias. None of these formerly successful encyclopedias remained in print for long after being merged into Encarta. …

Wikipedia – Encarta

3 thoughts on “idea – a Wiki novel”

Hey, Rick!

Might be a place for one of the Mark Remmington books! 🙂

May 4, 2009 at 10:16 pm Reply

Yes, there has been. http://www.theautobiographyofpain.com

May 20, 2009 at 10:54 am Reply

rickmc

Thanks Brianantor.

It obviously still needs a LOT of work.

Judging from the first few sentences:

Just the other day, I woke up to the tune of the ice cream truck playing its twinkly tune and kids screaming, whose sound much like the hammering in my head. There’s a dwarf mining company hacking their way through my skull. It is taking them way too longto make up their damn mind as to what flavor icecream they wanted.

May 20, 2009 at 11:34 am Reply

daveadlard

Hey, Rick!

Might be a place for one of the Mark Remmington books! 🙂

May 4, 2009 at 10:16 pm Reply
Brianantor

Yes, there has been. http://www.theautobiographyofpain.com

May 20, 2009 at 10:54 am Reply
1. rickmc
  
  Thanks Brianantor.
  
  It obviously still needs a LOT of work.
  
  Judging from the first few sentences:
  
  Just the other day, I woke up to the tune of the ice cream truck playing its twinkly tune and kids screaming, whose sound much like the hammering in my head. There’s a dwarf mining company hacking their way through my skull. It is taking them way too longto make up their damn mind as to what flavor icecream they wanted.
  
  May 20, 2009 at 11:34 am Reply