The Wikipedia founder brings the world's knowledge to the blockchain
Everipedia just announced that Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger will join them, preparing to upload the online encyclopedia to the blockchain.
Blockchain is the technology used by Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other virtual currencies, but its application goes even further. The idea of creating a decentralized encyclopedia is one of them.
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Everipedia's co-founder CEO Theodor Forselius said: 'We believe that we can build something bigger and better than Wikipedia, by decentralizing Everipedia, we will be able to share knowledge beyond the scope of people. use capital '.
How to bring knowledge to blockchain?
Everipedia is currently using an IQ score system for users to create and edit articles. By January, when switching to the blockchain, Everipedia would convert this IQ point to money based on tokens, turning intellectual assets into real assets.
Since then, when creating and editing articles, users have earned tokens, acting as a stock form. To prevent bad guys who deliberately create false content to make money, Everipedia forces users to put a token first to post content. If the article is approved, it will receive a token with an additional bonus, otherwise it will lose the token.
According to Foselius, the benefits of transferring knowledge to blockchain are numerous. Users no longer write for free.'In places where Wikipedia has many users operating like India, they all write for free. So the idea of becoming a shareholder for what they create and get back to their value in money makes me very happy . '
Everipedia co-founder Travis Moore, Theodor Forselius and Larry Sanger
In addition, the main advantage of blockchain is to turn Everipedia into a peer-to-peer repository of knowledge, without centralized servers, without server costs. Most importantly, Everipedia will not be affected by political interests such as content censorship.
There are about 3 million users every month, Everipedia is the world's largest online English encyclopedia, partly because it is sourced from Wikipedia articles. Having access to knowledge across the globe will be a big change for researchers, academics or anyone interested in being blocked for information for a variety of reasons.
See also: Forget what your school says, research at MIT proves that Wikipedia is a source of scientific citation
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