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@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-no-se- podra-modificar- arbitrariamente-gracias-a- blockchain/
>
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> Dennis Tobar Calderón
> Ingeniero en Informática UTEM
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