Wikipedia is often touted as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.†That revolutionary project is both free as in beer (and we Portlanders certainly know our beer!) and free as in freedom. But in the wikiverse, “anyone can edit†can really mean a variety of things. At AboutUs, we are “the guide to websites that anyone can edit,†but we require that people have a free account.
On the flipside, several other notable wikis (including Wikipedia) allow anonymous folks to edit pages. This often creates a large burden of vandalism to patrol every day, and is the reason why Wikipedia’s main page is protected from editing, except to a few thousand elected administrators.
Though at first it may seem like AboutUs is more closed by requiring our editors to log in, appearances can be deceiving. Once you take all of five minutes to create your AboutUs account, you have access to edit almost every page on our site.
Case in point: Vartan Simonian, a volunteer AboutUs administrator and 13 year-old programmer/composer from Irvine, CA recently made some improvements to the front page of AboutUs. That’s the real meaning of “anyone can edit.”
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I must tell you that I am not very happy with your sandding belts,I have tried several of them and they don’t last very long at all. I have used your 4 inch x 24 inch sandding belts and don’t like them, they tear apart after just very little use. I am an experinced woodwoker so I have used other brands and will go out of my way to not but them any more! mitch kennedy
Hello Mitch,
We are a website about websites. If you know the website you are looking for, you can add comments to the page here about that website. Good luck. Best, Mark
This is a revolutionary website and will improve the use of internet in a big way. I’ve used it for a few of my websites but did have difficulty entering the one listed above in ‘Future Sites’,I’ll just need to write in and ask what I’m not doing right.
Happy User,
Brian.
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