How Wikiwand plans to make money while building a better Wikipedia experience

Wikiwand made a name for itself in 2013 adding a streamlined interface and useful features to Wikipedia via a browser extension. The company has since raised $600,000 in funding, launched an iPhone app and has an Android version in the works. TNW spoke with founder Lior Grossman to find out about Wikiwand’s approach to designing a more usable encyclopedia, and making money off Wikipedia’s Creative Commons-licensed content. How did you go about translating the Wikiwand Web experience to mobile? We began by researching how people are using Wikipedia on mobile, as opposed to on the Web. We soon found that…



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