Prodavinci is a Venezuelan news site that provides analysis from historians, scholars and scientists. Foreign Policy called Prodavinci "a one-stop shop for Spanish-language analysis of the Venezuelan reality" while The Wall Street Journal described the website as having "serious political analysis". In 2009, Angel Alayón, a Venezuelan economist out of the University of Chicago, created a personal blog and decided it needed more content, stating "I would read things in the New Yorker, or the Atlantic, or Slate, and I would wonder why Venezuela couldn’t have something like that". Soon after, friends and the intellectual elite in Caracas began to show desire on posting on his blog, with Alayón then naming his blog "Prodavinci" as a "reference to DaVinci" and as "a call for a 'renaissance' of ideas in the country". Alayón describes Prodavinci as "a space for ideas, discussions and debates" though he doesn't want the website to be "a regular opinion page", saying: More information...
According to PR-model, prodavinci.com is ranked 21,386th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 2,068th in Spanish Wikipedia.
The website is placed before etihad.com and after timeforkids.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
