When discussing Everipedia one should also mention that the site in its
current form does not respect the copyrights of both English Wikipedia
editors and Commons uploaders: the articles and the files on this fork
have been contributed without any declaration about the licence of the
original works /anywhere/, the licence of the project itself is a
general ‘CC’, which is /not a licence/.
Everipedia as far as we are concerned is a dishonest attempt by Silicon
Valley’s VC culture to co-opt the encyclopedic format into something
that could be sold in few years. Given the blatant copyright
infringements on the site, however, WMF should’ve made some commentary
on the site given the influx of the news about it in early December.
On 11/12/2017 18:49, bawolff wrote:
Hi,
So
everipedia.com looks like some sort of Wikipedia fork/competitor.
Larry Sanger is appearently involved with it (I guess he got bored of
Citzendium). They seem to be a for profit company that wants to be
more inclusionist than Wikipedia, and also raise money by selling
customized articles.
They appear to be advertising that they are doing something with
"encylopedias" and "blockchain". However, they never specify what
they
are doing, there are no white papers or technical details, which is a
good measure that something is BS.
Probably they are trying to cash in on the hype around bitcoin.
Blockchain is an ill-defined enough concept that you can make almost
anything be "on the blockchain". Unless you are making a currency, it
is usually a solution looking for a problem.
This definitely has nothing to do with Wikipedia or Wikimedia.
--
Bawolff
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Dennis Tobar <dennis.tobar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone:
I signed, the past week, the list of Tech Ambassador for Spanish Wikipedia.
My username is Superzerocool, a veteran user (over 12 years) in Wikimedia
movement, and in the real life I being an Engineer Informatic. I live in
Chile and I am currently part of the Board of Wikimedia Chile.
In some chapter off-wiki talk (Telegram), an user share us a possibly
fake-news about the usage of blockchain to avoid the vandalism.
As I see the article[1] (in Spanish), the news talks about Everipedia, a
startup related with Blockchain technology and how they use the blockchain
in English articles(?).
As I see the article, the news is fake.
Kindly,
[1]
https://www.cuartopoder.es/innovacion/tecnologia/2017/12/09/la-wikipedia-ya…
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Dennis Tobar Calderón
Ingeniero en Informática UTEM
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