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Wikipedia Begets Veropedia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and--veropedia-begat-a-ham-sandwich dept.

Ponca City, We Love You writes "October saw the launch of Veropedia, a collaborative effort to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it in a quality stable version that cannot be edited. To qualify for inclusion in Veropedia, a Wikipedia article must contain no cleanup tags, no "citation needed" tags, no disambiguation links, no dead external links, and no fair use images after which candidates for inclusion are reviewed by recognized academics and experts. One big difference with Wikipedia is that Veropedia is registered as a for profit corporation and earns money from advertising on the site. Veropedia is supposed to help improve the quality of Wikipedia because contributors must improve an article on Wikipedia, fixing up all the flaws, until a quality version can be imported to Veropedia. To date Veropedia contains about 3,800 articles."

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  1. Non-projects? by InvisblePinkUnicorn · · Score: 4, Funny

    "non-projects"

    I think I meant "non-profit projects". The compression methods of my brain occasionally go too far.

  2. Re:English Teachers by General+Wesc · · Score: 4, Funny

    An internet-only source is inherently less credible because it allows any Tom, Dick or Harry with an internet connection to edit it.

    Really? I think I'm going to head over to Whitehouse.gov and fix up a few errors (read: lies). Then I think I'll inform Amazon.com that I'm the actual author of the Harry Potter books. (Okay, the Whitehouse isn't Internet-only, I guess, but even most that are aren't wikiwikiwebs.)