World66
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World66 is a Dutch company which embraced the open content idea and is currently trying to transform it into a profitable business.
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History
The site was founded in 1999 by Richard and Douwe Osinga as osinga.com, but the name was changed to World66 in the same year and they were soon joined by Michael Manikowski. On 29 November 2003, it expanded by absorbing the travel-related CapitanCook wiki.
Technology
World66 runs a wiki-like software based on the Zope application server, which allows everyone to add or edit contents. The site claims more than 80,000 travel related articles covering about 10,000 destinations around the world and all of them are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 Licence.
Issues
In 2004, World66 unilaterally relicensed all contributed content from the GNU FDL to CC by-sa 1.0. The legality of this move and the resulting copyright status of the content has been questioned.
