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==Description==
==Description==
'''AboutUs''' is a wiki site of {{tag|website}}s 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 Multi-license|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]
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[[Ward Cunningham]] was the chief technology officer at AboutUs from 2009 to 2011.
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==Criticism==
==Criticism==
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 site.  The initial seeding of the wiki had a bot that disregarded websites protected by a robots.txt.  That was quickly fixed and efforts were 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.
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===Response===
===Response===
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).
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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.
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==Wiki pages==
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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.
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==Related wiki sites==
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*[[Wikidweb]] — was another wiki site that discussed the web as a whole, dead since mid-2018
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*[[WhoIsBehind.org]] — also discusses the web as a whole
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*[[WebsiteWiki]] — is a similar wiki in [[:Category:Wiki German|German]], focused on [[:Category:Germany|German]] sites
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==External links==
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