Infogalactic

Infogalactic: Online Encyclopedia Alternative with Objective Views

An alternative online encyclopedia website focusing on objectivity and diverse viewpoints, built on the wiki model.

What is Infogalactic?

Infogalactic is an alternative online encyclopedia website launched in 2016 that aims to improve on Wikipedia by focusing more on objectivity and lack of bias in its content. It builds on the wiki model that allows anyone to edit articles, but implements some key changes:

- Instead of neutral point of view policy like Wikipedia, Infogalactic explicitly allows a broader range of viewpoints to be represented in articles while still striving for factual accuracy.

- It reduces the amount of censorship or administrative control over article content compared to Wikipedia policies. The goal is to allow debates over facts and viewpoints to take place transparently on discussion pages rather than be settled by deleting or editing out certain perspectives.

- It utilizes a planar model that allows articles to contain multiple perspectives on controversial topics that can be viewed side-by-side for easy comparison, with each viewpoint held to the same factual and citation standards.

- The software and infrastructure is set up in a decentralized, independent way to prevent issues like advertising pressure, legal threats, vandalism etc. from affecting content availability and integrity like it sometimes can on Wikipedia.

The founders and contributors to Infogalactic position it as a pro-free speech and anti-censorship alternative to Wikipedia for encyclopedia-style content, while continuing to develop features to enhance objectivity and editorial transparency compared to other wiki-based models.

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