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Copyright information is generally catered to by referring to the source and relying on their notices<ref>[http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image:Oglala_National_Grassland.jpg an instance of a copied image] </ref> using a link of the form: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Oglala_National_Grassland.jpg source and rights]  (they do not appear to have interwiki links for wp). Whether this is sufficient to comply with GFDL is a question for Wikipedia.
 
Copyright information is generally catered to by referring to the source and relying on their notices<ref>[http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image:Oglala_National_Grassland.jpg an instance of a copied image] </ref> using a link of the form: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Oglala_National_Grassland.jpg source and rights]  (they do not appear to have interwiki links for wp). Whether this is sufficient to comply with GFDL is a question for Wikipedia.
  
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So far (10:34, 1 May 2008 (EDT)) 7145 pages including one on Vanuatu but not United Kingdom
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Revision as of 22:42, 16 December 2009

Sorry! you can't see this. So bugger off!

New World Encyclopedia is a wiki rival (?) to Wikipedia believed to have been created by the Unification Church (or whatever they're calling themselves now). Ed Poor was a bureaucrat and rejected contributor. Some pages are inaccessible as of May 2008.

An interesting fact is that there are no "Special Pages" links, although some can be accessed by typing their name in the search box. There is now (Nov 2008) a search engine which fails to access special pages - presumably intentionally. There is a page to apply for paid writer positions - if their "writers" are up to anything then they might have something here. A category (Paid) shows which articles have been paid for. As of November 2008 there are 9610 Articles.

Contents

Source

Much of the content has been copied, and subsequently edited, from Wikipedia. There is a template affirming this copying.

Pictures are copied wholesale from Wikipedia.

Copyright information is generally catered to by referring to the source and relying on their notices[1] using a link of the form: source and rights (they do not appear to have interwiki links for wp). Whether this is sufficient to comply with GFDL is a question for Wikipedia.


Control

User rights log
The number 1 appears to be Gordon L. Anderson who is Secretary General of PWPA (Professors World Peace Academy) At least most of the sysop-ing was done by him after an initial burst by 'Admin' (see user rights log to right).
Block Log
As new as they are, and even with their recruiting methods, New World has some differences of opinion (see block log to right).

Articles once completed seem to be protected for all but Sysops.

Project Vision

The following is the Encyclopedia's page with the above title:

History of encyclopedias

Each effort to establish a system of knowledge proceeds from a "worldview," a philosophical, perhaps metaphysical, foundation that informs decisions regarding acquisition, organization, and presentation of knowledge. Diderot and the encyclopaedists (in the 18th Century) established the first encyclopedias from the philosophical perspective of the Enlightenment. More recently (after 1911) a certain scientism* influenced encyclopedias, resulting in the current tendency to attempt value-neutral presentations of facts and information.

Approach and Worldview

Due to its religious origins, the site is inherently unreliable and frought with conflicts of interest, particularly where metaphysical, philosophical, scientific and comparative religion topics are concerned.

The originator of this project is Sun Myung Moon. The philosophical and axiological foundations for the project derive from his life and teachings, especially as they are systematized in Unification Thought and other publicly available texts.

The worldview that informs this encyclopedia proceeds on the basis of universal values found in the life and teaching of Reverend Moon and in essence from all religious and spiritual traditions and in people of conscience, values drawn from original human purpose, and the purpose of creation.


Obsession?

On a visit late March 2009, the following articles were listed on the right-hand side as "recently updated":

  • Polygamy
  • Nuclear family
  • Kibbutz
  • Common-law marriage
  • Intermarriage
  • Prostitution
  • Extended family
  • Morganatic marriage
  • Incest
  • Exogamy and endogamy
  • Sodomy

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. an instance of a copied image


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