Is there any reason to think that Textop will “take off” exponentially the way Wikipedia did?
A. Yes, there is. As long as the outline’s nodes are spiderable, then Textop can enjoy the same sort of viral development that Wikipedia did. Moreover, once it is better developed, we can fully expect there to be many, many links deeply into the outline from highly-rated academic websites. This will increase the nodes’ Google pageranks. The higher the pagerank, the more traffic; more traffic, more contributors; more contributors, more nodes; more nodes, more traffic.