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AboutUs
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[edit] Description
AboutUs is a wiki of websites that anyone can edit. It is currently in Beta. AboutUs encourages people to register with their Real Names
[edit] Criticism
AboutUs has been criticized for displaying public whois data information from websites. The website has a bot which scrapes information from a website and uses it to make a starter AboutUs wiki page. The initial seeding of the wiki had a bot that disregarded websites protected by a robots.txt. Websites are still vulnerable due to the fact that the wiki encourages AboutUs users to add information about the website to it.
[edit] Response
AboutUs uses publicly available information to create a starter wiki page on every website that is searched for on its system. (after the initial 2+ million seeding) Unlike weblogs, or the whois system, it is very easy to change or request removal of information (from the history).
The initial seeding of the wiki had a bot that disregarded websites protected by a robots.txt. That was quickly fixed and efforts are ongoing to revert the edits that are in conflict.
It is a bit jarring to people who are not used to an open edit internet, that anyone, anywhere can write about them or the things they care about in such a manner. I suppose it was also jarring to people when weblogs exploded on the scene.
[edit] Wiki Pages
The wiki has over 13,000,000 wiki pages according to our stats page, which obviously needs to be honed down a bit: stats
[edit] related wiki
- Wikidweb is another wiki that discusses the web as a whole.
- Whoisbehind also discusses the web as a whole.
- Quarkbase is another wiki that discusses the web as a whole, with one page per website.
