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Gibraltarpedia

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Also known as gibraltarpedia.org

Key facts

Website.name
Gibraltarpedia
Website.logo
250px
Website.logocaption
The project's logo, depicting Europe (Rock of Gibraltar) and Africa (Jebel Musa)
Website.commercial
No
Website.language
Multilingual

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • The project
  • Scope and structure
  • Formation
  • Training workshops
  • Plans to use QR codes
  • Controversy
  • Allegations of conflicts of interest
  • Responses to the controversy
  • Investigation requested by Wikimedia Foundation
  • Restrictions
  • References

right|thumb|Video used to introduce Gibraltarpedia at Wikimania#2012|Wikimania 2012 in [[Washington, D.C.]] thumb|Gibraltar Minister of Tourism Neil Costa at Government of Gibraltar press conference on Gibraltarpedia, 18 July 2012 Gibraltarpedia is a project by the Government of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, to improve coverage of Gibraltar-related topics on Wikipedia. It builds on Monmouthpedia, an earlier project along similar lines linking Wikipedia and the town of Monmouth in South Wales. The Gibraltarpedia project was announced in July 2012 by the Government of Gibraltar.

In September and October 2012, the project became the subject of a public controversy concerning the role of Gibraltar's tourism board in the project, allegations that the project was being used to promote the tourism board's interests, and allegations of conflicts of interest arising out of a paid consultancy agreement between the Government of Gibraltar and a trustee of Wikimedia UK.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gibraltarpedia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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