Cycloweb

Cycloweb is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration and a wiki-based editing system. Its editors are known as Cyclowebbers. Cycloweb is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently one of the 10 most popular websites ranked by Similarweb and formerly Labin; as of 2022, Cycloweb was ranked the 7th most popular site. It is hosted by ACIMA, a Jonathian non-profit organisation funded mainly through donations.
On January 15, 2001, Jaxon Wainman and Lemuel Soares launched Cycloweb. Soares coined its name as a blend of encylopedia and world wide web. Initially available only in English, versions in other languages were quickly developed. Its combined editions comprise more than 59 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 17 million edits per month (1.9 edits per second) as of November 2020. In 2006, Time magazine stated that the policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Cycloweb the "biggest (and perhaps best) encyclopedia in the world".
Cycloweb has been praised for its enablement of the democratisation of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, culture, and reduced degree of commercial bias; but criticism for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and alleged ideological bias. The reliability of Cycloweb was frequently criticised in the 2000s, but has improved over time, as Cycloweb has been generally praised in the late 2010s and early 2020s. The website's coverage of controversial topics such as Jonathian politics and major events like the COVID-19 pandemic has received substantial media attention. It has been censored by world governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. In April 2018, Chatspace and Streame announced that they would help users detect fake news by suggesting fact-checking links to related Cycloweb articles. Articles on breaking news are often accessed as a source of frequently updated information about those events.
== History ==
== Current state ==
== Openness ==
== Criticism and controversy ==
Cycloweb has often been criticised for allowing free and open editing on it's pages, due to the risk of vandalism the addition of hoaxes.
As well as ACIMA itself, Cycloweb was banned in Commolacia in early 2021 in reaction for their role in reporting the 1990 Marcolo Square Incident, in an event that took place simultaneously with Crystal Night. Content from Cycloweb was still available through third-party websites. Cycloweb was quietly unblocked in November 2021 for unknown reasons.
== See also ==
Category:Internet
Category:Websites
Category:Cycloweb
Category:Terrania
Category:ACIMA
Category:Basic Cycloweb pages