Infogalactic
Infogalactic is an online encyclopedia that aimed to be an improved version of Wikipedia. To this end, Infogalactic is a fork of Wikipedia, meaning that its content is derived from a past version of Wikipedia and has diverged from it over time. Infogalactic aspires to avoid possesses the bureaucracy and biases of Wikipedia.[1] Science fiction author Vox Day is Infogalactic's lead designer.[2]
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Planned user preferred perspective based information architecture
Vox Day wrote:
| “ | Infogalactic plans to solve the structural problems of a community-edited online encyclopedia through objectivity, proven game design principles, and a sophisticated series of algorithms. Currently in an operational Phase One, the Planetary Knowledge Core has a five-phase Roadmap that its founders claim will eliminate edit warring, significantly improve accuracy, neutralize vandalism and other forms of griefing, and render all forms of political bias on the part of administrators and editors irrelevant....
Infogalactic’s anti-bias architecture will permit users to select their preferred perspective and automatically see the version of the subject page that is closest to it based on a series of algorithms utilizing three variables, Relativity, Reliability, and Notability. This means a supporter of Hillary Clinton will see a different version of the current Donald Trump page than a Donald Trump supporter will, as both users will see the version of the page that was most recently edited by editors with perspective ratings similar to his own.[3] |
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Alexa and Similarweb ranking of Infogalactic in February of 2017
Similarweb gave Infogalactics a global ranking of 127,996 as of February 6, 2017.[4]
References
- ↑ Project Bigfork: Infogalactic by Vox Day
- ↑ Nolan, Lucas (2016-10-10). Infogalactic Launches as Alternative to Biased Wikipedia. Breitbart. Retrieved on 2016-11-05.
- ↑ Project Bigfork: Infogalactic by Vox Day
- ↑ Similarweb - Infogalactic
