Everipedia is a portmanteau of the words "everything" and "encyclopedia."
The online encyclopedia is a fork of Wikipedia, founded in 2014 by Sam Kazemian, Theodor Forselius, Travis Moore, Mahbod Moghadam, George Beall and Christian Decigaas.
Since its launch, Everipedia wants to rival Wikipedia by offering a truly open and censorship-free database of information. Everipedia's goal is to build the most accessible online encyclopedia, and not as restrictive as Wikipedia.
Its developers claim that Wikipedia has too many regulations and “bureaucratic-type overseers” that makes it “attractive only to a relatively small portion of potential encyclopedia writers.” Because of Everipedia's lower inclusion criteria, the encyclopedia's number of articles quickly surpassed English Wikipedia
Everipedia started as a small project by the co-founders, made in a college dormitory room at UCLA.
The idea to develop Everipedia as an encyclopedia for the web was when Moghadam was frustrated when he realized that the Wikipedia article about him was getting deleted.
It was in May 2015 that Everipedia found their first investor. In June, there were 5 workers excluding the co-founders. In January 2017, there were 8 full-time workers and 2 developers. In February 2018, Everipedia had 14 full-time workers.
On December 2017, Everipedia announced its plans to move to generating edits and storing information using the EOS blockchain. This is to decentralize heavier data files such as video and images. The company was also building a peer-to-peer wiki network that adds an incentive system to Everipedia's contributors.
Using blockchain technology, Everipedia wants to get past the limitations made by governments. Since every website can have their server IP addresses blocked by the governments, using decentralized blockchain, Everipedia's contents cannot be censored.