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ProductWiki is a free and unbiased resource for high quality product information. The community creates and maintains concise product reports that include a mix of objective description information, and subjective opinions and reviews. Product categories are focused on regular consumer products such as electronics and housewares, but does extend to other categories such as software and notable websites. First launched in the fall of 2005, the website has undergone many upgrades and is one of the largest stand-alone wikis on the web.

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MSRP$0.00
Release date November, 2005
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Pros & Cons

ProSCORE
42 reviews
62
negative
mixed
positive
21 positive
13 mixed
8 negative

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Pros:
Do you agree?
Public version of Consumer Reports!
+35agreedisagree

Supports OpenID logins
+20agreedisagree

Not just another mediawiki- or phpbb-based site
+18agreedisagree

ProSCORE is a surprisingly accurate new way of measuring how "good" a product is - better than 5-star system
+14agreedisagree

Better than porn
+13agreedisagree

Can be addictive (I don't think being an addictive website is a "Con")
+10agreedisagree

Collaborative Pros/Cons is very effective and unique way to review a product
+10agreedisagree

Free API access to product database
+4agreedisagree

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0agreedisagree

Cons:
Do you agree?
Can be addictive
+13agreedisagree

Not a large enough user base
+10agreedisagree

Can't sort by love/have/want within categories
+7agreedisagree

Categories (other than active) not easily navigable from home page
+6agreedisagree

Search function needs improvement
+5agreedisagree

Retailers (like small independents) who don't pay for Shopping.com listings are at a disadvantage
+2agreedisagree

Collaborative Pros/Cons means users who have never used a product, touched a products and do not posses any knowledge about a product other than what they read on someone's blog contribute as much to the product review as somewhat with intimate knowledge of the product.
+1agreedisagree

Open to trolling.
+1agreedisagree

No way to edit spellink mistakes once an item is posted and edit window times out.
+1agreedisagree

No way to delete pros/cons even by original author
+1agreedisagree

OpenID login requires an extra click
-5agreedisagree

needs an easily visible 5-star product rating system on product overview page
-10agreedisagree

bugs
-13agreedisagree


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Details

Key features

  • Unbiased, neutral-point-of-view descriptions
  • Extensive editability - nearly all aspects of the site, including the category taxonomy are editable by the community
  • collaborative pro/con system
  • competitor ranking system
  • product list making with "tapping" system
  • ProSCORE system gives an unbiased rating of each product

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written by Erik Oct 12, 07

About ProductWiki

written by Erik Jan 20, 09

This report was started March 10, 2006 at 11:19 am by Erik
with the last edit occurring March 7, 2010 at 6:03 am by fractalhorizon
This page has been viewed 1307 times, with 459 edits by 50 contributors.
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Comments

1.  avatar Erik said:

This is soooo meta.
Sep 14, 2006 5:07pm
2.  avatar tnakagawa said:

Great job! Keep up the good work.
Sep 17, 2006 3:47am
3.  avatar Jan said:

I "have" the website too ;)
Nov 23, 2006 6:13am
4.  avatar GregL said:

Really like the site. Wish you guys the best of luck.
Apr 09, 2007 8:46pm
5.  avatar Erik said:

Don't be afraid of filling out the pros and cons on this page. I'm interested in knowing how PW stacks up to its own criticism.
Oct 22, 2007 11:07am
6.  avatar Erik said:

Do you think search still needs improvement? It was just updated a few minutes ago.
Oct 02, 2009 5:02pm
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Reviews

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nitesher

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April 23, 2008
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ProSCORE
0
negative
mixed
positive
0 pros
1 con
0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

Did not agree with any pros

Cons

  • bugs

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GT-D

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January 10, 2008
approved
reviewer
ProSCORE
100
negative
mixed
positive
1 pro
0 cons
love itlove it
have ithave it
0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Pros

  • Better than porn

Cons

Did not agree with any cons

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emluca123

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March 21, 2009
ProSCORE
50
negative
mixed
positive
3 pros
3 cons
love itlove it
have ithave it

Pros

  • Not just another mediawiki- or phpbb-based site
  • Better than porn
  • Can be addictive (I don't think being an addictive website is a "Con")

Cons

  • Can be addictive
  • Can't sort by love/have/want within categories
  • Search function needs improvement

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keatsta

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January 11, 2010
ProSCORE
100
negative
mixed
positive
4 pros
0 cons

Pros

  • Public version of Consumer Reports!
  • Supports OpenID logins
  • Not just another mediawiki- or phpbb-based site
  • ProSCORE is a surprisingly accurate new way of measuring how "good" a product is - better than 5-star system

Cons

Did not agree with any cons

Competitors

keatsta prefers ProductWiki.com over droolr
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