Tech gets dedicated Wiki treatment Intel style

Wikpedia has revolutionised the way we receive and create information. That’s a fact.

Since its creation in 2001, the site has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009.

Here come the stats. There are more than 85,000 active contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of today, there are 3,118,493 articles in English.

But that’s not good enough for some people.

Intel  has launches an online encyclopaedia dedicated to all things Tech called ‘Tech Wiki’ (Can they do that? Copyright infringement?).

The technology information hub works pretty much like the Wiki Granddaddy. Users can post anecdotes, edit contributions and connect technologies (through an interactive timeline) from the past, present and future.

Whether or not it will take off remains to be seen. Why bother when Wiki itself has comprehensive Tech coverage and content?

And when a brand hosts a project like this, when happens when competitors start posting? Or negative Intel posts are created.

See some problems,  folks?

Still Team Intel are hoping the project – currently in Beta stage – will catch the imagination of the public.

Stories that are submitted will form an interactive timeline where people can quickly navigate long periods of history and zoom in on the era that interests them.

Clusters of technology stories from that era will appear like constellations on the timeline.  If a user moves their mouse over a ‘star’ it will expands the entry to reveal the subject and a click will open the full article on the web page.

The site can also be used to discuss the convergence of technologies from past, present and future innovations with like minded people.

One to watch? Or not? We’ll have to see how this one pans out.