"Origins of WeWrite" on WeWrite

Here's how I arrived at the idea of creating WeWrite:

In September of 2020, I co-founded a niche political wiki to challenge Wikipedia. Unfortunately, in October of 2022, I reached an irreconcilable disagreement with my fellow administrators and decided to step down from the project so as not to try a takeover.

I then launched a new wiki to compete with the previous one.

This process was so difficult and annoying that it sparked a desire to create a new wiki app that allows these splits to naturally happen, without all the hassle of setting up an entirely new wiki. Just create a new community and carry on!

As a designer I've also thought extensively about how MediaWiki software could be improved. One example is I wrote in a blog post long before the MediaWiki team got around to it that they should implement a sticky sidebar for the table of contents.

The design was inevitable, because it was correct. I can't claim credit for them doing this, but at least I was onto something!

Here's how I arrived at the idea of creating WeWrite:

In September of 2020, I co-founded a niche political wiki to challenge Wikipedia. Unfortunately, in October of 2022, I reached an irreconcilable disagreement with my fellow administrators and decided to step down from the project so as not to try a takeover.

I then launched a new wiki to compete with the previous one.

This process was so difficult and annoying that it sparked a desire to create a new wiki app that allows these splits to naturally happen, without all the hassle of setting up an entirely new wiki. Just create a new community and carry on!

As a designer I've also thought extensively about how MediaWiki software could be improved. One example is I wrote in a blog post long before the MediaWiki team got around to it that they should implement a sticky sidebar for the table of contents.

The design was inevitable, because it was correct. I can't claim credit for them doing this, but at least I was onto something!

Here's how I arrived at the idea of creating WeWrite:

In September of 2020, I co-founded a niche political wiki to challenge Wikipedia. Unfortunately, in October of 2022, I reached an irreconcilable disagreement with my fellow administrators and decided to step down from the project so as not to try a takeover.

I then launched a new wiki to compete with the previous one.

This process was so difficult and annoying that it sparked a desire to create a new wiki app that allows these splits to naturally happen, without all the hassle of setting up an entirely new wiki. Just create a new community and carry on!

As a designer I've also thought extensively about how MediaWiki software could be improved. One example is I wrote in a blog post long before the MediaWiki team got around to it that they should implement a sticky sidebar for the table of contents.

The design was inevitable, because it was correct. I can't claim credit for them doing this, but at least I was onto something!

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Origins of WeWrite

Origins of WeWrite