Follow the money: Novogratz and Block.One Everipedia is an active part of the structure of EOS - Everipedia and Ikigai run LibertyBlock, one of the EOS block producers (what EOS has instead of mining). The original plan for Everipedia was to use Ethereum, but instead they did it on EOS. The old site was closed to editing on September 10 - all editing is now on the IQ Network site, using IQ Tokens. You can see the edits - there’s lots of copyright violations in Korean, and contributors who were previously banned from Wikipedia. The IQ Network, the blockchain version of the site, launched on 9 August 2018. Sanger’s track record with mapping out an entire encyclopedia bureaucracy from first principles is not so great - after he left Wikipedia, he spent a few years working out a detailed plan for Citizendium, which launched with great fanfare in late 2006 and had driven away most of its academic editors by late 2007. He wrote extensive hypothetical rules for the site - under the apparent impression that it mattered if any of this worked. Sanger was very excited by a blockchain model - mostly a fantasy version of “blockchain,” without any tedious technical limitations. The knowledge-related public face is Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia, left in 2002, and remains visibly annoyed that it kept going just fine without him. This will allow you to stake IQ for Brain Power, which allows for editing and voting. Here’s Everipedia’s simple 16-part guide to editing on the blockchain - so much better than just hitting “Edit”.ġ0) Click your account name and select “GET BRAINPOWER” or “# BRAIN”. Every “is” is a “might, in the future.”Įveripedia is working on its token economics with Dan Larimer, a founder of EOS - and architect of BitShares, which EOS is based on - and of blogging site Steemit. In the current version of the site, you have to pay IQ tokens to edit at all - which optimises for spam and astroturfing. “Just like miners who find blocks get newly minted bitcoin, these editors who are voted to have a very good state-change proposal get newly minted tokens,” said Everipedia co-founder and white paper co-author Sam Kazemian.Įditors would initially get IQ tokens for “good” contributions - which optimises for click-farms. Every editor on the site received an allotment equal to their IQ score on the site.Įditors and curators will then “mine” that cryptocurrency by making accurate, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia. When the site moved to its blockchain version, IQ points were converted to IQ tokens. If you wrote an article and your edits were approved, you gained “IQ” points. The previous version of Everipedia used a points system. In December 2017, at the peak of the crypto bubble, Everipedia announced a blockchain-based encyclopedia, running on IQ Tokens. This was pretty much my Virgin Wikimedia Foundation proposal from 2006 - except I was joking. The site’s high point was misidentifying the 2017 Las Vegas shooter, leading to a completely unconnected man being harassed by far-right trolls.Įveripedia also offered “Everipedia Plus” - to just straight-up sell “encyclopedia” pages on a sponsored basis. The Outline called it “the Wikipedia for being wrong” - “the site has a pattern of creating erroneous articles for non-notable people that capture search traffic after tragic news events.” It specialises in low-quality articles about people who aren’t actually famous - but were momentarily in social media. “Any source is valid, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.” It claims to be the largest English-language encyclopedia in the world - because it started by copying all of Wikipedia, then added buckets of extra content that was well below Wikipedia quality standards. The Wikipedia for being wrong …Įveripedia started in 2015. Last year, Everipedia decided to … go blockchain! It’s now one of the showcase apps for the EOS blockchain.Īs far as I can tell, the bad encyclopedia is an irrelevant decoration - it’s all about the flow of Everipedia’s IQ Tokens, and the flow of EOS tokens. Rather than being run by a charity, as Wikipedia is, Everipedia is a private for-profit company. Everipedia is a forked copy of Wikipedia that’s been around for a few years.
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