by Adan Salazar, InfoWars:

Innovator embarks on “Encyclosphere,” an open-source encyclopedia network

An ex-founder of the website Wikipedia is embarking on the creation of a global knowledge database he says will benefit humanity far more than the so-called “free encyclopedia.”

For years, Wikipedia – which fancies itself an online encyclopedia “that anyone can edit” – has acted as a gatekeeping tool and propaganda arm of the corporate establishment.

Its entries are served up to millions as knowledge databases for corporations like Google and Apple, yet contrary to their motto they are actually tightly controlled, and edits must be approved by moderators who often let corporate bias influence their decisions.

Now engineer Larry Sanger, whose work led to the creation of Wikipedia, says the platform’s grown far too compartmentalized for its own good, and is introducing a new tool to decentralize that control.

“Wikipedia is great, right? My name is Larry Sanger. I started it, and I don’t think so,” Sanger says in a new video introducing the “Encyclosphere.”

Sanger asserts Wikipedia has “become centralized and controlling, just like Facebook and Twitter.”

“They have all become openly hostile to views unapproved by the establishment,” Sanger says. “Let’s fix this.”

The Encyclosphere essentially builds off the Wikipedia model, but it seeks to be a global open-source effort everyone can help contribute to.

“There needs to be a decentralized encyclopedia network, a nonprofit knowledge commons, that supports multiple, competing articles on all topics,” Sanger envisioned in a tweet last month.

I’m ex-founder of Wikipedia. There needs to be a decentralized encyclopedia network, a nonprofit knowledge commons, that supports multiple, competing articles on all topics. We’re hard at work organizing it and will have an announcement on Oct. 18. Follow us: @ks_found

— Larry Sanger (@lsanger) October 6, 2019

“We need a free giant global knowledge commons without any central control,” his video states.

According to Sanger, the Encyclosphere will be a massive repository of encyclopedias and knowledge which will be available to all.

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