Veropedia
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Veropedia, Inc. |
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| Website | www.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 Internet encyclopedia project launched in late October 2007. It was taken down in January 2009, pending creation of a new version. As of this date, there has been no report of a new version.
Veropedia editors chose 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.
As of October 2008[update] the site, still in beta, had checked and imported more than 5,800 articles from the into its public database. Although Veropedia intended to eventually support itself completely through advertising, the project was mainly financed by those involved in the project, and in January 2009 it disabled articles and advertisements and announced a coming "Beta2". The "Beta2" never arrived and the articles were not restored.
In January 2009, the encyclopedia contents were removed and replaced with a message stating that "The original version of Veropedia has been taken down for now while we work on a new Veropedia. This new Veropedia will have a superior method of handling articles and introduces an improved interface."
Veropedia, founded in 2007, was still in its beta stage. In August 2008, it had an Alexa traffic rank of over 1.5 million – indicating it was significantly less popular than , (Traffic rank 6) Citizendium, (Traffic rank of 273,939) and Scholarpedia. (Traffic rank of 171,753)
In January 2008, the St. Petersburg Times, a well known Florida newspaper based in the town from which Daniel Wool operated Veropedia, listed Wool and Terry Foote, a Veropedia investor, as "people to watch in 2008".
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