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{{Infobox Website
| name = Wikinfo
| logo = [[Image:Wikiowl.gif]]<br>'''Wikinfo logo'''
| url = http://www.wikinfo.org/
| commercial = No
| type = [[Internet encyclopedia project]]
| language = English
(contracted; show full)registered users still have their [[IP address]]es publicly revealed and recorded. As of August 2007, there is some activity on Wikinfo, with several hundred edits per week.<ref name="stats"/> The site states that there are approximately one thousand user accounts and 29 administrators, including Bauder himself.<ref name="stats">{{cite web|url=http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/index.php/Special:Statistics|title=Wikinfo:Statistics|accessdate = 2007-08-09}}</ref>

By 
AugustDecember, 2007 Wikinfo had approximately 367,700 articles. The process of importing articles hasd been accelerated by using an interface called GetWiki, a highly modified version of release 1.1.0 of the [[MediaWiki]] software (2003) used to power Wikipedia and other [[website]]s. The intention of GetWiki's author, M.R.M. Parrott ("proteus"), was to add some new features to MediaWiki, but it was decided to [[Fork (software)|fork]] the codebase from the MediaWiki project in January 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.getwiki.net/wiki.php?title=GetWiki:1.0|title=GetWiki:1.0|accessdate=2007-02-07}}</ref> Instead of red links, GetWiki uses green links to point to articles which do not exist locally.

When the user follows such a link, GetWiki tries to dynamically fetch it from the wiki designated as an external source (in Wikinfo's case, the English Wikipedia), then renders and displays the article text. A local copy is created only if the page is edited. Effectively, Wikinfo therefore provides a [[transparency (computing)|transparent]] "wrapper" around Wikipedia pages which have not yet been copied.

Wikinfo no longer uses GetWiki.⏎
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==Multilingual==
Although there are no subdomains on Wikinfo to separate articles of different languages, Wikinfo allows articles in languages other than English and requests that articles on the same topic in different languages link to each other.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/index.php/Wikinfo:About/Purpose|title=Wikinfo:About/Purpose|accessdate=2007-09-25}}</ref> Existing links to Wikipedia articles in other languages are retained in the case of articles copied from Wikipedia.

==See also==
Other general-purpose wiki encyclopedias:
* [[Wikiweise]] (German)
* [[WikiZnanie]] (Russian)
* [[Susning.nu]] (Swedish)
* [[Enciclopedia Libre]] (Spanish)
* [[Citizendium]] (English)

==References==
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== Further reading ==
* Klobas, Jane ''et al.'' (2006). ''Wikis: Tools for information work and collaboration''. Oxford: Chandos Publishing. ISBN 1-84334-178-6. {{OCLC|63136958}}. pp 45-46. 

==External links==
* [http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml Wikinfo main page] (Main - FJB)
* [http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Wikinfo:About/Comparisons_to_Wikipedia Comparisons to Wikipedia]
* [http://www.getwiki.net/ GetWiki website] (fork - proteus)
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