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Revision as of 23:28, 25 February 2007
ArmchairGM is a sports-forum and wiki site. It was created by four people, Dan Lewis, Aaron Wright, Robert Lefkowitz and David Pean. It was put on the website in early 2006, and so far has nearly 1,500 users. While the site was initially US-based, it has sought to improve its links to sports associated with Britain in particular over the past year. It has recently entered the top 100,000 websites in terms of traffic ranking according to Alexa.
Special technology
The site's main developer on the technological side was David Pean. While the site was based on the Mediawiki software used on Misplaced Pages, other things have been developed.
- The ability to publish opinions, news, and game recaps.
- The ability to vote for articles that users feel have been well researched, written, or they agree with.
- The ability to comment on each article. These comments can be either plussed or minused by other users if a user chooses.
- A top user ranking system, based on edits, total comments, amount of pluses received and promoted opinions (i.e. opinions with a certain number of votes or comments).
- The ability to embed videos into an article.
Other features
- A category of online sporting Blogs
- Affiliates with other blogs, something currently being developed.
In the news
Wikia purchase
The site was recently bought by Wikia, a company founded by Jimbo Wales for $2 million. The four developers have since shared their technology on Wikia, and have recently extended their range by providing Politics, Entertainment and Local services.
Charity donations
For Super Bowl Sunday, the site made charity donations for every comment posted. The main hub of this commenting was done in a Live Blog of Super Bowl XLI.
References and notes
- "Alexa Traffic Rankings". Alexa. 2007-02. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Amazon puts Time and Money into Wikia". MercuryNews.com. 2006-06-12. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
- "Online Sports Community ArmchairGM Seeks to Turn Super Bowl Sunday into Charitable Fund Raiser". eMediaWire. 2007-02-02. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
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