Wikinvest, a Wikipedia for Investors
Wikinvest is a wiki for investing. This is an online community where users can add their views about stock market. The community operates around wiki which was created and modified by the members of wikinvest. You can get embedded and interactive wikichart for market analysis with this tool.
This set up allows users for various knowledge about investing from their standpoint. You can write an entry regarding a particular company, or add your opinion on why you think it’s for a bull or bear market. You don’t have to log in in order to contribute at wikinvest. Anonymous contributions are linked to the ISP address. You can filter the information that you are looking through by means of users or anonymous entries, company category etc.
Like most wikis, Wikinvest will face a few problems including spammed entries, lack of interest to create content and the dubious authority of users generating content. These problems exist for Wikipedia as well, yet Wikipedia continues to have as high an accuracy rating.
Wikinvest still faces the stiffest competition from the financial sites themselves, which offer real time news along with their professionally managed content. Wikinvest, however, has a wikis advantage of agility by quickly adjusting to new trends and interlinking across concepts.
Source: Mashable
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