Diffen vs Wikipedia - Difference and Comparison

Also Compare

Cameras Cars Cell Phones GPS Systems Processors Tennis Players more..

From Diffen

	Diffen	Wikipedia
Topics:	Serious as well as frivolous allowed	Serious topics only
License:	Diffen licenses its content under the Creative Commons (NC, A, SA) license.	Wikipedia content is licensed under the GFDL.
Advertising:	Yes	No
Objective:	Collection of differences and comparisons.	Online encyclopedia
Number of articles:	over 500 comparisons, with information about 3,500+ entities including digital cameras, phones, cars and companies	7.9 million (1.94 million in English)
Point of view:	Neutral (facts). Opinions are allowed in the Comments section and in user ratings for certain entities.	Neutral
Founded in:	2007	2001

While both Diffen and Wikipedia are user-generated repositories of information (encyclopedia, if you will) running on similar software engines, they are both quite different.

[edit] Objective of Wikipedia vs. Diffen

While the aim of Wikipedia is to be a online encyclopedia, Diffen's scope is both narrower and broader.

Diffen is narrower because the articles on Diffen are not on a specific topic but on the difference between or comparison of any 2 things. For example, while Wikipedia has articles on LCD screens and Plasma screens, Diffen has an article on the difference between LCD and plasma.

The scope of Diffen is broader than Wikipedia in the sense that there is no restriction on the topics. While Wikipedia is a serious encyclopedia, Diffen is more libertarian and can be used to compare anything (including personal topics). In that respect, Diffen is a little bit like YouTube.

[edit] Relationship between Diffen and Wikipedia

Diffen is not a part of the WikiMedia Foundation. There is no formal relationship between Diffen and Wikipedia.

Since the content for Wikipedia and Diffen is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and Creative Commons license respectively, both projects can use content from each other. As an information resource, Diffen complements Wikipedia for researchers interested in differences and comparisons.