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Type of site | Online encyclopedia |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Veropedia, Inc. |
| Created by | Wikipedia editors |
| URL | veropedia.org (defunct) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Not required to read, required to contribute |
| Launched | October 2007 |
| Current status | Inactive |
Veropedia was a free, advertising-supported online encyclopedia launched in late October 2007. It was taken down in January 2009, pending creation of a new version.
Veropedia editors chose Wikipedia articles that met the site's reliability standards; information was then scraped, or chosen by an automatic process, and thereafter a stable version of the article was posted on Veropedia.[citation needed]
Any improvements required for articles to reach a standard suitable for Veropedia had to be done on Wikipedia itself. This model was intended to provide benefits to both projects: Wikipedia's open nature and large volume, and Veropedia's stability and perpetuity.[1][2][3]
As of October 2008[update] the site, still in beta, had checked and imported more than 5,800 articles[4] from the English Wikipedia into its public database.[5] Although Veropedia intended to eventually support itself completely through advertising, the project was mainly financed by those involved in the project,[6] and in January 2009 it disabled articles and advertisements and announced a coming "Beta2". [citation needed]
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- ^ "All Articles". Veropedia. Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
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