news.ycombinator.com• Jun 28, 2019• 1 min read
Ask HN: Models for Collaborative Websites?I am playing with the idea of creating a niche information website, where I want users to be able to contribute and improve the content.I am looking at the Wikipedia and StackOverflow models to get inspiration on how to foster quality contributions. Is there any other good example of a website where good quality content emerges from user contributions?Using a pure Wiki or Stack-exchange model is not an option, because:- I want to be able to impose a schema for the different items that can be documented, to improve searchability, so a wiki is a bit too unstructured, but- the general structure should be closer to an encyclopedia than a Q&AThe aim is to provide a collection of quality information, which is missing in that niche, not to make money, in case that matters.