Infogalactic

Infogalactic is a wiki encyclopedia project created by alt-right staple figure Theodore Beale in 2016infogalactic.com Traffic Statistics Alexa (archived from July 13, 2017). that "aspires to be more objective" than the allegedly crooked and bias-ridden Wikipedia,"Infogalactic is non-ideological and the Starlords will ruthlessly eliminate all ideological spin, framing, narrative, and context from the Fact-level pages regardless of whether they agree with it or not." https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Seven_Canons while simultaneously giving power to "corelords", corporate professionals who have purchased the ability to oversee the editing of pages related to their industry.https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Corelords
==Founding by Beale==
According to Beale, who goes by the online blogging handle of "Vox Day", part of his inspiration for creating the wiki was his biography on Wikipedia: "The page about me there has had everything from my place of birth to the number of times I've been married wrong. And that’s not even counting the outright abuse, such as when Wikipedians replaced the entire page with a definition of a sexually-transmitted disease or with a string of obscenities."http://www.brianniemeier.com/2016/10/infogalactic-planetary.html (Apparently, the vandals had made light of the fact that "Vox Day" usually signs his posts with the acronym "VD".)
Beale's wiki has minimal structure and mostly consists of unedited pages plagiarized from Wikipedia. Although he claims that "We already have 11 million pages",http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-doubters-doubt.html that number isn't backed up by the site's own statistics page, which reports barely a fifth of that number.Infogalactic's Statistics page. As of 2017 November 17, there are only about 2,054,000 actual content pages. Vox Day cites Wikipedia's alleged loss of favor from powerful metaphysical entities for why it will be superseded by Infogalactic:
==But why?==
Everything about Infogalactic is to grind Day's personal axes.Hugos don't matter *sniff* (archive) (His working user is "Fenris".Contributions/Fenris (login required)) Fortunately, future galactic citizens' instance of the planetary core knowledge base will tell them all the Important Information about SCAAALZIII!!!Fenris' SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT about John Scalzi (archive)
==Reception==
Vox Day notes:http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/sjws-are-bitter-about-infogalactic.html
Some Kings Wiki editors have questioned whether their website will become irrelevant now that Infogalactic exists, which is presumably a more "alt-right friendly" alternative to Wikipedia with a much more comprehensive focus than Kings Wiki.http://en.kingswiki.com/wiki/Talk:Infogalactic
Some Redditors are very on board. TheSlicemanCometh explains, "The wikipedia killer will be a decentralized wikipedia with contributors having reputation. SJWs get horrible rep and get banned and their former contributions auto-deleted."https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/57qfq1/infogalactic_the_nerdy_alternative_to_wikipedia/d8v25mt/
As of November 2017, the website popularity is in decline from a peak of popularity at rank 52,821 in July 2017 to the current rank of 82,792.infogalactic.com Traffic Statistics Alexa (archived from 17 Nov 2017 04:51:03 UTC).
The used Infogalactic as one of its built-in search engines, on the direction of founder Brendan Eich,https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/5475 until it changed software base in December 2018. Like the other built-in search engines, it was unable to be removed.https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/blob/master/js/data/searchProviders.js#L133-L141 Brave were alerted to what they'd added in February 2018,https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/13298 but were apparently just fine with it until the base software change.
== But surely this is a well-planned and thoroughly thought-out endeavor ==
Vox would probably go pretty well against Larry Sanger of Citizendium in a wiki control-addict face-off. He repeats a lot of the same mistakes:http://voxday.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/project-big-fork-infogalactic.html
Infogalactic is not using tawdry MySQL or MariaDB for the database, just because MediaWiki is relentlessly overoptimised to use it, and it's what all the paid developers at Wikimedia develop against. No, they started on Oracle, the port for which is maintained by half a volunteer! Deliberately making work for yourself with no actual benefit at all is apparently genius systems administration. Infogalactic has since moved to Postgres. (As Citizendium did. The Postgres port is also maintained by half a volunteer, but at least it gets run through MediaWiki core unit testing.)
Infogalactic is directly competing with Wikipedia by first copying the whole thing: "The name isn't the issue. It has to show up first in any search engine. That's what Wikipedia has." Google first instituted the duplicate content penalty in 2005, a while after Wikipedia asked why they were typically on page three or four, behind thirty of their own mirror sites — and they've consistently been first ever since.
But then, Vox is a bit of an expert on wiki communities, you know.
Infogalactic features an innovative approach to dealing with corporate spam: charge companies to become admins on their pages.http://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Corelords
==Reliable sourcing policy==
You'll be delighted to know that Infogalactic has solved Wikipedia's wrangles with sourcing!Infogalactic:Reliability (archive)
We're sure there are no immediately obvious edge cases there, as, e.g., the past couple of decades of Wikipedia might have demonstrated. If you were a bright high school student coming up with something off the top of your head, that list would be a good start for classroom discussion about why, in practice, the world is a bit more complicated than that.
Of course, it seems that Infogalactic's "reliable source" policy is worthless anyway as many of the articles on the site are filled with outlandish and unsourced claims, take for instace their page on "transexuals", which contains no citations until the third paragraph in. https://infogalactic.com/info/Transsexual
==See also==
* Conservapedia
* Citizendium
* Metapedia, another alt-right wiki
* Rightpedia
==External links==
*Infogalactic
*InfoGalactic article on RationalWiki
==References==
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