Everipedia which is considered to be the biggest competitor of Wikipedia is live now. It is the first decentralized internet encyclopedia that is based on the blockchain technology. Everipedia is uncensored in terms of information and also it comes under no central power.
Everipedia is live now and it has 6 million articles, which is more than Wikipedia that has been around for 17 years now.
According to the team of Everipedia, the site is totally free from ads and promotions. It is decentralized and made for ‘truth-seekers.’
The information shared is not bound to the countries and regions and can be viewed by anyone even if it’s banned. The co-founder and CEO of the organization, Theoder Foselius says,
“Wikipedia is largely older white men, we’ve tried to focus on getting a lot of female edits, younger editors, and diverse background and ethnicities.”
There are many differences between these two platforms. At Wikipedia, the contributors work for free but Everipedia has introduced the concept of incentives that will encourage people to contribute for it.
Everipedia will reward the contributors with the IQ tokens. IQ tokens will allow the holder eligible to governance and voting rights of the organization. Everipedia is under no central server and no centralized power. The project’s existence is not liable to a few people. The CEO says, “If everyone on the team got abducted tomorrow, the site would keep running.”
The co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger is now the Chief Information Officer of Everipedia. He joined the project in 2017. He is now a critic of Wikipedia as he is unhappy of what “Wikipedia has turned into” and said that it is now controlled by few players only.
The organization has decided to move from Ethereum to EOS and quoted “scalability issues” as the reason. They are just waiting for the decision to make changes in their favor.
The future is guaranteed to be in the favor of Decentralized internet and blockchain technology is already making success in the industry. The launch of Everipedia will definitely encourage the startups to look forward to blockchain technologies and will also motivate the established businesses to make changes in their existing technologies.
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