Seeding a startup without using fake accounts: anyone seed a startup with wikipedia content? How did that work out?

Post by amichail » Sat, May 19, 2007, 9:31 PM UTC

louisadekoya wrote: post #10

amichail wrote: post #2

Someone recommended that I seed http://studystickies.com with wikipedia content. So I've been working on that and plan to make an update next week with some wikipedia content. At least in this way, search queries would yield something interesting. But at the same time, it would be clear that this data was imported from wikipedia. So it's not obvious what sort of impression this would have on visitors to the site. Als…

Your site appears to be down right now but I stumbled upon it once before and not only did I grok it straight away, I also thought it was a great idea. That said, if some people are saying they don't get it, you should do something about that.

Post by amichail » Sat, May 19, 2007, 10:41 PM UTC

timg wrote: post #8

amichail wrote: post #6

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See the flash demo. Maybe I should change the text on the flash demo button to "what's this? (flash demo)"

Demo not working for me. Even if it did though, I agree that you should make more apparent the immediate use that the site has for the new user.

Post by spoonyg » Sat, May 19, 2007, 11:13 PM UTC

andre wrote: post #12

picnichouse wrote: post #9

I'm curious what technology you used to grab content from wikipedia?

it's pretty easy to write a scraper in most languages and customize it as needed. I've done in PHP.

Post by especkman » Sun, May 20, 2007, 5:57 AM UTC

Post by maxklein » Mon, May 21, 2007, 11:42 AM UTC

amichail wrote: post #13

timg wrote: post #8

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Demo not working for me. Even if it did though, I agree that you should make more apparent the immediate use that the site has for the new user.

The site is up now and includes wikipedia content. For example, try this query: http://studystickies.com/#number%20theory