Sound cheap? It's completely kosher by the Wikimedia Foundation's own standards.) Yet, Everipedia’s body of human editors, the lifeblood of any wiki-style encyclopedia, isn’t huge while the site boasts 17,000 registered editors, only a “couple of thousand” of those are active, Forselius says. A live bot compares all ongoing changes, updating the posts as they change while giving priority to Everipedia-based edits. (Much in the way Wikipedia was built on a foundation of articles, Everipedia’s founders used Wikipedia’s database as their cornerstone. The assumption is that other users, motivated by the desire to maintain the site’s value, will actively seek to prevent such efforts.īesides, Everipedia is already a functioning encyclopedia it currently sees about 3 million users monthly, and touts itself as having more English-language articles than Wikipedia.
#HPW TO REQUEST EVERIPEDIA WIKIBOT TO PULL A PAGE PLUS#
If their work is accepted, they get their token back, plus a little bit for their contribution if not, they lose their token. To prevent bad actors from trying to cash in with ill-founded or deliberately false articles and edits, Everipedia will force users to put up a token of their own in order to submit. From then on, creating and curating articles will allow users to earn tokens, which act as virtual shares of the platform. Everipedia already uses a points system where creating articles and approved edits amasses “IQ.” In January, when the site moves over to a blockchain, Everipedia will convert IQ scores to a token-based currency, giving all existing editors an allotment proportionate to their IQ-and giving them a real, financial stake in Everipedia. Blockchain already stands to make medical patient data easier to move and improve food safety now, Everipedia’s founders hope, it will allow for a more powerful, accountable encyclopedia.
Oh, blockchain, that decentralized “global ledger” that provides the framework for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (as well as a thousand explainer videos, and seemingly a thousand startups’ business plans). To do that, Sanger’s new employer is trying something that no other player in the space has done: moving to a blockchain.
It describes him as “an American Internet project developer … best known as co-founder of Wikipedia.” By the time you read this, however, it may well mention a new, more salient fact-that Sanger recently became the Chief Information Officer of Everipedia itself, a site that seeks to become a better version of the online encyclopedia than the one he founded back in 2001. At the time of this writing, the opening sentence of Larry Sanger’s Everipedia entry is pretty close to his Wikipedia entry.
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