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Why haven't we seen a successful wikipedia fork yet that doesn't have this hijacking by deletionists problem?


[Network effect.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect)

Also due to this Wikipedia is build into a lot of things, like google search, or iOS Siri.


My experience has been that the only people with the desire to put effort into an alternative are mainly interesting in making sure there are so many flash ads on every single page that it can crash your browser.




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