Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia established by Jimbo Wales (with substantial help in the beginning from Larry Sanger) on January 15, 2001. It currently has over 6 million articles, written in 250 languages, including over 1,600,000 articles in the English version. Conservapedia uses the wiki program made popular by Wikipedia. Content on Wikipedia is free-content under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), and anyone can add to or edit the content on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Commons

Initially, Wikipedia was hosted on servers operated by Bomis Incorporated, a search portal funded by Jimbo Wales. Then in 2003, Jimbo Wales created the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation with himself as board president, to oversee the day-to-day operation of Wikipedia.

GFDL License Issue

Wikipedia's practice of complete deletion of articles without reference to the original article, the author(s)/publisher(s) of the article, and the history and title(s) of the article, including modification history, description and appropriate dates, is a direct violation of at least GFDL version 1.2. Not only that, but the GFDL License states that if the article/document contains Copyright notices, that said notices must be preserved at all times. If those notices are removed, then they are in violation of Copyright Law, as well as the terms of the GFDL license. Furthermore, the question of them removing anything outright at all comes into quite a grey area. If one reads the GFDL License literally, then it implies that once the article document is posted, it is in distribution, and technical measures are not allowed to be taken to prevent the use of the document in question, and that no other conditions whatsoever can be added by you to those of the GFDL license.

External Links

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• Wikitruth
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• Wikipedia Watch
• Wikipedia Review
• 4th International Communist League's Criticism of Wikipedia