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|wide logo = y<!--insert 'y' when the logo is too wide | |wikinode URL = https://aboutus.com/WikiNode | ||
| | |about URL = https://aboutus.com/AboutUs.com | ||
|wikinode URL = https:// | |founder = unknown<!--wiki founder(s) name(s); wikilink or hotlink if available; if unknown, use 'unknown'--> | ||
| | |status = Active | ||
|founder = unknown<!--wiki founder(s) | |language = Multilingual | ||
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|license = Multi-license | |license = Multi-license | ||
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[[File: | [[File:AboutUsLogo.jpg|thumb|left|AboutUs earlier beta logo|alt=]] | ||
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| | |statistics URL= https://aboutus.com/Special:Statistics | ||
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}}( | }}(As of: 2022-09-22)<!--YYYY-MM-DD; manually add/amend ISO 8601 date when stats are verified and/or updated--> | ||
==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] | ||
[[ | [[Ward Cunningham]] was the chief technology officer at AboutUs from 2009 to 2011. | ||
==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. | |||
===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). | |||
It is | 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 | ==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 sites== | ||
*[[ | *[[Wikidweb]] — was another wiki site that discussed the web as a whole, dead since mid-2018 | ||
*[[ | *[[WhoIsBehind.org]] — also discusses the web as a whole | ||
*[[ | *[[WebsiteWiki]] — is a similar wiki in [[:Category:Wiki German|German]], focused on [[:Category:Germany|German]] sites | ||
== | ==External links== | ||
{{ | {{WikiApiary}} | ||
[[ | [[Category:Founded in 2006]]<!--https://AboutUs.com/AboutUs.com--> | ||