Everipedia
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Type of site | Blockchain encyclopedia |
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Founded | December 2014 |
Headquarters | Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
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Industry | Dot-com company |
Current status | Renamed IQ.wiki in 2022[3] |
Content license | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Int'l |
Everipedia (/ˌɛvərɪˈpiːdiə/) is a blockchain-based online encyclopedia. Everipedia was founded in 2014 and was officially launched in 2015, as a fork of Wikipedia. Larry Sanger (who co-founded Wikipedia) joined the company in 2017.[4] In 2022, Everipedia was renamed IQ.wiki.[3]
The company was initially headquartered in Westwood, Los Angeles but has since relocated to Santa Monica, California.[5] The site depicts itself as "The World's Largest Blockchain & Crypto Encyclopedia" and formerly as "everyone's encyclopedia".[6][7][8][9]
History
Everipedia (2014–2022)
Everipedia, a portmantaeu of "Everyone's Encyclopedia", began in December 2014 as a small project of Sam Kazemian and Theodor Forselius in Kazemian's college dormitory room at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[10][5][11]
The encyclopedia launched in January 2015[12][6] as a fork of Wikipedia. Travis Moore joined the company as a co-founder in the winter of 2015 and Mahbod Moghadam joined as a co-founder in July 2015.[5][11]
The company raised capital and received funding from angel investors. In July 2015, the company got its first seed funding from Mucker Capital[5] and raised close to $130,000 from 201 investors on Wefunder.[13] In October 2015, George Beall was introduced to Everipedia at a presentation in California State University, San Bernardino.[14] After selling his technology start-up Touch Tiles in January 2016, Beall joined the group of co-founders.[10] In 2016, the site generated most of its revenue from advertisements.[5] The company aims to generate income through ways apart from donations or banners.[15]
In January 2017, they had eight full-time workers including two developers.[16] By February 2018, headcount had increased to 15 full-time workers.[17] As of January 2017[update], they raised $700,000 from angel investors.[16] It was announced on February 8, 2018, that the company raised $30 million in funding headed by Galaxy Digital's EOS.io Ecosystem Fund.[18] In December 2017, Everipedia announced that co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, had become the chief information officer of Everipedia.[19][20] On October 18, 2019, Sanger announced his resignation from this position.[21]
The majority of Everipedia's articles were copied from Wikipedia and promotional material about cryptocurrency and can still be accessed on the former domain.[22]
Inactivation and archival (2022–present)
Everipedia was converted to a read-only archive in October 2022. Its parent company, IQ, has created a new crypto-only encyclopedia called IQ.Wiki.
Products
Developer(s) everipedia.org | | |
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Supply limit | 21,000,000,000 | |
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Website | iq |
Blockchain signatures
On December 6, 2017, the company announced plans to move to generating edits and storing information using the EOS blockchain.[24] After the blockchain is implemented, the company plans to convert the points into a token currency.[25] The tokenized system would let every user become a stakeholder in the wiki network. Each editor will put their token into play for each edit.[25] If their contribution is accepted, the user gets back the token, which will have obtained value in proportion to the content added.[25] If the edit is not accepted, the user does not get their token back.[4]
Everipedia launched on the EOS blockchain on August 9, 2018.
Content and users
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Everipedia adapted social media elements such as letting celebrities communicate with fans,[32] and allowing users to create pages on any topic as long as the content is cited and neutral.[5][33]
In March 2016, Everipedia had 200,000 published pages.
Everipedia allowed for a larger range of articles than Wikipedia, as the English Wikipedia's notability guidelines are stricter than Everipedia's. Everipedia did not allow censorship on any topic for sourced articles.[36]
There are communities in Brazil, China, Germany, and India.[16] The company said in 2017 that Everipedia had 17,000 registered editors and 2,000 active editors as well as 3 million monthly users.[4] In 2019, Kazemian said there were 7,000 active editors.[37]
Several dozen vandals were banned from Everipedia.[33] In a 2017 interview with Boing Boing, Kazemian claimed that the Everipedia community normally identified a vandal within five minutes.[33] The company had a group of editors who reviewed activity on the site and deleted content that they considered suspicious.[10]
The site frequently focused on
Everipedia previously offered a service for a monthly fee that allows for users and businesses to create tailored Everipedia entries that get "full-time monitoring for updates and preventing vandalism".[34]
See also
References
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