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{{Wiki | {{Wiki | ||
|URL= | |URL = https://AboutUs.com | ||
|logo=[[File:AboutUsLogo.png]] | |logo = [[File:AboutUsLogo.png|AboutUs current logo]] | ||
|recentchanges URL= | |recentchanges URL= https://AboutUs.com/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&limit=500 | ||
|wikinode URL= | |wikinode URL = https://AboutUs.com/WikiNode | ||
|about URL= | |about URL = https://AboutUs.com/AboutUs.com | ||
|status= | |status = Active | ||
|language=Multilingual | |language = Multilingual | ||
|editmode= | |editmode = LoginToEdit | ||
|engine=MediaWiki | |engine = MediaWiki | ||
|maintopic= | |license = MultiLicense | ||
|maintopic = Directory | |||
}}{{TOCright}} | }}{{TOCright}} | ||
[[File:AboutUsLogo.jpg|thumb|left|AboutUs earlier beta logo]] | |||
{{Size | {{Size | ||
|pages = | |pages= 28,739,639 <!--excluding talk pages, redirects, and other non-article pages--> | ||
|statistics URL = | |statistics URL= https://AboutUs.com/Special:Statistics | ||
}}(As of: 2018-02-16) | |||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
'''AboutUs''' is a wiki of {{tag|websites}} that anyone | '''AboutUs''' is a wiki of {{tag|websites}} that originally, [[:Category:OpenEdit|anyone could edit]]. Previously in Beta, AboutUs encourages people to register with their [[AboutUs:IPreferRealPeople|real names]]. The AboutUs [[wiki]] is powered by the ever-popular {{tag|MediaWiki}} software, and is rendered by a fresh {{tag|custom skin}}.[https://GitHub.com/OSAS/strapping-mediawiki] In terms of [[:Category:Wiki License|licensing]], all editable content is made available under the terms of {{tag|Wiki MultiLicense|two licenses}}: those being the {{tag|Wiki GNU Free Documentation License|GNU Free Documentation License}} (GNU FDL, or more commonly GFDL), and / or the {{tag|Wiki Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike|Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0}} (CC-BY-SA 3.0). However, all non-editable content, together with all content in the 'Learn' section are {{tag|Wiki Site retains copyright|copyright AboutUs}}. AboutUs point out the importance of [[attribution]] – when re-published, it must include a link back to the original article.[https://AboutUs.com/FinePrint] | ||
==Criticism== | ==Criticism== | ||
AboutUs has been criticized for displaying public whois data information from websites. The website has a bot which scrapes information from a website and uses it to make a starter AboutUs wiki | AboutUs has been criticized for displaying public whois data {{tag|information}} from websites. The website has a bot which scrapes information from a website, and uses it to make a starter page on the AboutUs wiki. The initial seeding of the wiki had a bot that disregarded websites protected by a robots.txt. That was quickly fixed and efforts are ongoing to revert the edits that are in conflict. Websites are still vulnerable, due to the fact that the wiki encourages AboutUs [[user]]s to add additional information about the website to it. | ||
===Response=== | ===Response=== | ||
AboutUs uses publicly available information to create a starter wiki page on every website that is searched for on its system | AboutUs uses publicly available information to create a starter wiki page on every website that is searched for on its system (after the initial 2+ million seeding). Unlike [[:Category:Weblog|weblogs]], or the whois system, it is very easy to change or request removal of information (from the history). | ||
It is a bit jarring to people who are not used to an open edit internet, that anyone, anywhere can write about them or the things they care about in such a manner. I suppose it was also jarring to people when weblogs exploded on the scene. | It is a bit jarring to people who are not used to an open edit internet, that anyone, anywhere can write about them or the things they care about in such a manner. I suppose it was also jarring to people when weblogs exploded on the scene. | ||
==Wiki pages== | ==Wiki pages== | ||
As of February 2018, the AboutUs wiki has over 28,000,000 wiki pages according to our stats page, which obviously needs to be honed down a bit: [[AboutUs:Special:Statistics|stats]]. Only about 983,674 have been edited, but that does not mean the pages that have not been edited cannot be edited. | |||
==Related wiki== | ==Related wiki== | ||
* [[Wikidweb]] is another wiki that discusses the web as a whole | *[[Wikidweb]] — is another wiki that discusses the web as a whole | ||
* [[Whoisbehind]] also discusses the web as a whole | *[[Whoisbehind]] — also discusses the web as a whole | ||
* [[Quarkbase]] is another wiki that discusses the web as a whole, with one page per website | *[[Quarkbase]] — is another wiki that discusses the web as a whole, with one page per website | ||
* [[WebsiteWiki]] is a similar wiki in German, focused on German sites | *[[WebsiteWiki]] — is a similar wiki in [[:Category:Wiki German|German]], focused on [[:Category:Germany|German]] sites | ||
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