Wikipedia Sucks!

“The ability to be a stakeholder in the encyclopedia they edit and get real monetary value back, it’s really exciting to me.” The value is more than literal, however. Blockchain’s primary advantage, as with turning money into a decentralized commodity, is that it turns Everipedia into a peer-to-peer resource. No more centralized server (and no more server costs). “If everyone on the team got abducted tomorrow,” Foselius says, “the site would keep running.” And perhaps most importantly, distributing the site to users around the world means that Everipedia effectively becomes uncensorable. In nations like Turkey and Iran, where Wikipedia is currently censored, users can contribute to Everipedia—and, yes, get a little crypto-scratch while they’re at it.

When bored congressional staffers edited the Wikipedia entry for Donald Rumsfeld to call him an “alien lizard” and to dub Lee Harvey Oswald a “Russian Puppet,” Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales misappropriated blame on Congress’ “IT staff,” rather than its interns.

“There is a belief from some of the [Wikipedia] community that it only provoked someone—some prankster there in the office—to have an audience now for the pranks, and actually encouraged them rather than discouraged them,” he said.