WikiDumper.org is a blog created by US author
Clifford A. Pickover
Clifford Alan Pickover (born August 15, 1957) is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, science fiction, innovation, and creativity. For many years, he was employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Researc ...
with the aim to permanently record a snapshot of the "best of the
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read ref ...
rejects", articles that are slated for deletion at the site.
WikiDumper was launched on November 4, 2006, and accepts user submissions. The site doesn't specify its criteria for inclusion and many of its articles don't
cite
A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of ...
their sources. The site has been criticized as likely to be less accurate than Wikipedia. Its slogan is "Knowledge's Last Chance."
As of April 2021, Wikidumper was being hosted on
Blogspot
Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 which enables multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed th ...
, with its most recent entry dating to 2013.
Related articles
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Deletionpedia
Deletionpedia is an online archive wiki containing articles deleted from the English Wikipedia. Its version of each article includes a header with more information about the deletion such as whether a speedy deletion occurred, where the deletion ...
References
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*{{cite news , title= What you don't know , url= http://blogs.usatoday.com/techspace/2006/11/what_you_dont_k.html , publisher= USA Today , first= Angela , last= Gunn , date= November 8, 2006 , accessdate= 2006-12-01
External links
Wikidumper.org
American websites
History of Wikipedia