Wikipedia Co-Founder Launching Competitor Due To Wikipedia’s Left-Wing Bias

[Jefferson]

Wikipedia Co-Founder Launching Competitor Due To Wikipedia’s Left-Wing Bias​

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger announced he is starting an alternative to Wikipedia due to the fact they have been taken over by the left.

Sanger told Just the News that his new, forthcoming project, called “Encyclosphere,” is a decentralized network of the world’s encyclopedias, what he called “an old-fashioned, leaderless, ownerless network, like the blogosphere.”
Sanger said just as there are no administrators in the blogosphere, “in the same way, I want to create a protocol that very loosely ties all the encyclopedias online together.”

In the interview, Sanger cited a Fox News report which exposed the whitewashing of atrocities under Socialism and Communism.

The two main Wikipedia pages for socialism and communism made no reference to the tens of millions who were killed under both Communist and Socialist regimes.

 

[Yorzhik]

Wikipedia Co-Founder Launching Competitor Due To Wikipedia’s Left-Wing Bias​

Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger announced he is starting an alternative to Wikipedia due to the fact they have been taken over by the left.



In the interview, Sanger cited a Fox News report which exposed the whitewashing of atrocities under Socialism and Communism.

The two main Wikipedia pages for socialism and communism made no reference to the tens of millions who were killed under both Communist and Socialist regimes.

I also use infogalactic.com. It's a Wikipedia clone that seems to allow less SJW bullying. I don't know/care who owns it, but apparently one can take a snapshot copy of Wikipedia and make their own version. I don't know of other people that have done this, but I'm surprised more people/companies haven't. It could be shadowbanned though because it normally won't come up in google even if you use a search string unique to the site on a popular topic - so there may be others that *have* done it, but unless you know the name of the site and include that as a search term, you won't get any pages from those copy-sites.

One more thing, I have a slow computer and I've noticed that infogalactic is faster than wikipedia, so they must be doing some work on the framework behind the information as well as controlling the editing policy.

Does anyone else know of other quality wiki clones? I'll be checking out Larry's new version.

 

[Jefferson]

Does anyone else know of other quality wiki clones? I'll be checking out Larry's new version.

Conservapedia

conservapedia.com

 

[Hilltrot]

The reason I like the new Encyclosphere is that it allows a person to work on an article without giving up all ownership over it. People are allowed to deface articles written for Wikipedia as long as they have "consensus". If one is able to retain modification ownership of an article on Encyclosphere, it will prevent the defacing of articles. People will gravitate toward the articles with the best written quality while ignoring articles which are clearly pushing an agenda.

I am interested in what will happen.

 

[Right Divider]

I also use infogalactic.com. It's a Wikipedia clone that seems to allow less SJW bullying. I don't know/care who owns it, but apparently one can take a snapshot copy of Wikipedia and make their own version. I don't know of other people that have done this, but I'm surprised more people/companies haven't. It could be shadowbanned though because it normally won't come up in google even if you use a search string unique to the site on a popular topic - so there may be others that *have* done it, but unless you know the name of the site and include that as a search term, you won't get any pages from those copy-sites.

One more thing, I have a slow computer and I've noticed that infogalactic is faster than wikipedia, so they must be doing some work on the framework behind the information as well as controlling the editing policy.

Does anyone else know of other quality wiki clones? I'll be checking out Larry's new version.

There are other search engines that will find what you want: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=infogalactic&atb=v1-1&ia=web

 

[Arthur Brain]

Conservapedia

conservapedia.com

Um, how is conservapedia a "quality" clone? It's an absolute joke.

Compare the two entries on a fairly neutral subject, the composer, Igor Stravinsky.

Igor Stravinsky - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Igor Stravinsky - Conservapedia

conservapedia.com

Now one is detailed, thoroughly researched and completely on the mark and the other is like a kid's piece of homework that they scrabbled the day it was due in order to hopefully avoid a detention.