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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)gust 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 December 2007 Wikinfo had approximately 37,700 articles. The process of importing articles 
had beenwas accelerated by using an interface called GetWikiGetWiki.  This interface, a highly modified version of release 1.1.0 of the [[MediaWiki]] software (2003) used to power Wikipedia and other [[website]]s, was formerly used by Wikinfo. 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 usesd green links to point to articles which doid not exist locally.

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

Wikinfo no longer uses GetWiki.

==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 la(contracted; show full)[[Category:History of Wikipedia]]
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[[Category:Websites which use Wikipedia]]
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