13 Facts About Everipedia

Everipedia is a blockchain-based online encyclopedia, founded in 2014, and launched in 2015 as a fork of Wikipedia.

Everipedia was founded in December 2014 and began as a small project of Sam Kazemian and Theodor Forselius in Kazemian's college dormitory room at University of California, Los Angeles .

In December 2017, Everipedia announced that co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, had become the chief information officer of Everipedia.

Everipedia is owned and operated by the privately held Everipedia, Inc The company is headquartered in Westwood, Los Angeles, California near UCLA.

Everipedia aims to generate income through ways apart from donations or banners.

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Everipedia stated they were building a peer-to-peer wiki network that adds an incentive system by using cryptocurrency technology to incentivize editors with tokens that have legitimate monetary value.

Everipedia says the blockchain model does not have centralized servers, therefore eliminating the cost of servers.

Everipedia adapted social media elements such as letting celebrities communicate with fans, and allows users to create pages on any topic as long as the content is cited and neutral.

Everipedia allows for a larger range of articles than Wikipedia, as the English Wikipedia's notability guidelines are stricter than Everipedia's.

Everipedia has a group of editors who review the activity on the site and delete content that they consider suspicious.

Jeff John Roberts of The Outline raised concerns about the privacy ramifications of Everipedia, which developed many of its articles by gathering content from social media, creating publicly visible entries on non-notable individuals.

Roberts noted that trolls have used Everipedia to promote conspiracy theories and defamatory comments.

Everipedia previously offered a service for a monthly fee that allows for users and businesses to create tailored Everipedia entries that get "full-time monitoring for updates and preventing vandalism".