{"id":551078,"date":"2006-12-13T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551078-wikipedia-founder-to-share-collaborative-software.html"},"modified":"2006-12-13T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T10:58:11","slug":"wikipedia-founder-to-share-collaborative-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551078-wikipedia-founder-to-share-collaborative-software.html","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia founder to share collaborative software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Jimmy Wales said a free service dubbed OpenServing.com &quot;would go live shortly&quot; to give anyone the ability to build websites devoted to shared interests. OpenServing computers would host the websites. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Website creators will get to keep all the advertising revenues, &quot;providing a whole new world of entrepreneurial business models to bloggers and website owners,&quot; according to a release from Wales&#8217;s company Wikia. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The websites would be built as &quot;wikis,&quot; which means their content could be edited or changed by visitors in the communal style used at Wikipedia, a popular, multi-language online encyclopedia refined by those that use it. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Social change has accelerated beyond the original Wikipedia concept of six years ago,&quot; Wales said in a release. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;OpenServing is the next phase of this experiment. We don&#8217;t have all the business model answers, but we are confident, as we always have been, that the wisdom of our community will prevail.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The six &quot;pillars&quot; of Wikia&#8217;s OpenServing were listed as free software, bandwidth, storage, computing power, online content, and &quot;giving away&quot; the ad revenue to those who create online community websites. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=61042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Wikipedia announced on Monday that he planned to give more online power to the people by providing free software and hosting services for collaborative websites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}