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“What a mess.”
“I hope rightsholders sue them into bankruptcy.”
“It is a true work of art. (of the crucifix-in-a-jar-of-urine variety)”
“Another Larry Sanger project. Citizendium failed, but he seems to have taken the wrong lessons from its failure.”
“Wait, if this isn't Everipedia, who have I been providing with quotes all these years?”
Everipedia is a wikiclone without notability requirements[1] for ego-trippers who think their pages and profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube, Diaspora and Instagram just aren't enough. They fail to attribute content from Wikipedia and Commons properly.
They believe the blockchain mothership will save them all in the near future and take them to a better place. 30 million dollars of wasted investment money[2] says this was a good idea, as well as the co-founder of Wikipedia that isn't a co-founder of Wikipedia.
The currently prevailing theory on how Everipedia convinced Mike Novogratz to open his purse is that they didn't. Mike just gave them money he usually spends on caviar to unclog his toilet so he would sound more interesting at dinner parties. And investor meetings. Should've stuck with the caviar, really.
Blockchain mothership[edit | edit source]
Sam Kazemian is a professional designer of spaceships and web designer in his spare time. When Larry Sanger (not to be confused with any Wikipedia co-founders) asked Kazemian to build a blockchain mothership, he got right to work. He ordered a beach chair off of Amazon, and, upon discovering beach chairs can hardly be called "chairs", bought a sofa. He sat down and ordered 20,000 unpaid gnomes to build a spaceship capable of reaching Xenu out of nothing but long chains of blocks stringed together. When construction was 95% complete and 3,511 gnomes had died from malnutrition, Sanger informed Kazemian he was actually supposed to be building a Wikipedia clone website. As most of the budget had already been blown on the spaceship, many corners were cut when developing the website. The spaceship was dumped in the ocean. It was supposed to be positioned next to Atlantis, but the moving company relied on Everipedia for the exact coordinates and as a result, the spaceship was dropped on top of Atlantis.[3] No humans were injured. 397 gnomes drowned during this operation, two on purpose.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Really, none at all. Everipedia article about the essay this article was based on. Everipedia (2018).
- ↑ De, Nikhilesh (8 February 2018). Novogratz's 'Crypto-Bank' Is Backing Everipedia's Blockchain Pivot. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018.
- ↑ Jon Christian (4 October 2017). Everipedia is the Wikipedia for being wrong. The Outline.