Wikinfo

Wikinfo, formerly known as Internet-Encyclopedia (renamed in January 2004), is a fork of Wikipedia initiated by Fred Bauder in July 2003. It is hosted by ibiblio. Wikinfo makes no attempt to be multilingual, although existing links to Wikipedia articles in other languages are retained in the case of articles copied from Wikipedia.

Wikinfo's point of view policy

Rather than adopting a neutral point of view, Wikinfo's policy on a contributor's point of view is to edit for a . It uses a point of view which endeavors to present a subject or concept in a favorable light. The main article is written from a sympathetic point of view which is described as "a way of encouraging a pluralism of content, rather than limiting content to an unattainable encyclopedic goal." http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Internet-Encyclopedia:Sympathetic_point_of_view Critical articles in the style of any title: A critical view are encouraged. A set of articles about a particular topic are split into a number of articles with a specified point of view—thus it tries to have several points of view on each topic.

Related Topics:
Neutral point of view - Point of view

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Users of Wikinfo, called "Wikinfoans" or "Wikinfos", feel Wikinfo is a way of escaping debilitating edit wars, which they perceive to be frequent on Wikipedia. They do not want to become like Wikipedia, "hamstrung by squabbling sysops getting legalistic about their biases", as Wikinfo user Proteus put it http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Wikinfo:Village_pump/Archive_2#Promoting_Wikinfo. Some Wikinfo users appreciate the fact that their submissions are not edited as frequently as on Wikipedia.

Related Topics:
Edit war - Sysop - Legalistic - Bias

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