User:Jeremygbyrne/Wikifac
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A wikifac is a web-based information source typically hosted on Mediawiki and drawing much of its content from GPL sources such as Wikipedia and "value-adding" annotation, additional cross-linking and a mix of income-generating features such as Google Adsense, info-product spinoffs, Affiliate marketing links and micropayment tipboxes.
Wikifacs may be created manually or automatically generated; automated wikifacs are typically regarded as infospam. Similarly, wikifacs may feed their value-added information back to public-domain sources, although this is far from a universal practice.
Income from wikifacs is claimed to have been instrumental in the development of the Georgebox AI project (initially via the IZ databot interface). The wikifac craze of 2006ā2007 has been credited with the addition of Mediawiki markup to HTML.