[WikiEN-l] Cubans start online encyclopedia

[Keith Old]

G'day folks,

Reuters reports that Cuba has started its own online encyclopedia.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE6BD02E20101214?sp=true

Cuba has begun its own online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia, with the
goal of presenting its version of the world and history.

It describes its longtime ideological enemy, the United States, as "the
empire of our time" and "the most powerful nation of all time."

EcuRed (www.ecured.cu) will be launched officially on Tuesday, but it was
already up and running on Monday, with 19,345 entries.

It was developed "to create and disseminate the knowledge of all and for
all, from Cuba and with the world," the site said.

Users supposedly will be able to update entries with prior approval from
EcuRed administrators.
"Its philosophy is the accumulation and development of knowledge, with a
democratizing, not profitable, objective, from a decolonizer point of view,"
the site said.

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