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{{Infobox Website
| name = Wikinfo
| logo = [[Image:Wikiowl.gif]]<br>'''Wikinfo logo'''
| url = http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/
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| type = [[Internet encyclopedia project]]
| language = English
(contracted; show full)policy on a contributor's [[perspective (cognitive)|point of view]] is to edit for a sympathetic point of view.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking|author=Joseph M. Reagle Jr.|url=http://reagle.org/joseph/2004/agree/wikip-agree.html|date=2004}}</ref><ref name="telepolis">{{cite web|author=Erik Möller|url=http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19859/1.html|title=Der Stein der Wikis|work=[[Telepolis]]|date=[[2005-04-11]]|lang
uage=German}}</ref> This policy endeavors to present a subject or concept in a favorable light. A main article is written from a sympathetic point of view, described as "a way of encouraging a pluralism of content, rather than limiting content to an unattainable encyclopedic goal."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/wiki.php?title=Sympathetic_point_of_view|title=Wikinfo: Sympathetic point of view|accessdate = 2006-09-12}}</ref> A critical article in the style of ''"[Main article title]: A critical view"'' is likewise encouraged. A set of articles about a particular topic are split into a number of articles with a specified point of view&mdash;  thus Wikinfo can have several points of view on each topic, each linked to the other at the top of the article.

Users of Wikinfo feel this policy is a way of escaping debilitating [[edit war]]s (disagreements in which [[wiki]] editors undo one another's changes repeatedly), which they perceive to be frequent on Wikipedia.  They aim to avoid becoming "hamstrung by squabbling [[sysop]]s getting [[Legalism (Western philosophy)|legalistic]] about their [[bias]]es," as Wikinfo user ''Proteus'' describes Wikipedia.<ref name=promote>{{cite web|url=http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Wikinfo:Village_pump/Archive_2|title=Wikinfo: Village pump|accessdate = 2006-09-12}}</ref>  Some Wikinfo users appreciate the fact that their submissions are not edited as frequently as on Wikipedia.<ref name=promote />

Wikinfo accepts and encourages [[original research]] from their writers, and states: "Creativity and diversity are strongly encouraged in our articles. This means we   do not encourage the capricious generation of factoids, but the deeper connections and discussion of new patterns revealed to us by other knowledge."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Wikinfo:About|title=Wikinfo:About|accessdate = 2006-12-22}}</ref>

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