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Camerapedia is an online encyclopedia about still cameras. camerapedia.org Camerapedia ran on a private server, based on MediaWiki. Its policy was from the beginning to be a non-commercial, independent encyclopedia project. Original research was allowed to supplement summaries of published work. The content was licensed under GFDL; it linked to Flickr where the images posted by its contributors were hosted. Some were in the public domain, some copyleft, others conventionally copyright. Camerapedia was founded in 2005 by Brandon Stone (user Lbstone), who hosted the server. The major contributor of content was Rebollo_fr, who may have contributed half of the content and who made it a leading online resource particularly for the early and immediately postwar history of Japanese cameras and camera makers. Camerapedia had many articles about cameras, lenses, shutters, companies and related people of Japanese and non-Japanese heritage, widening its coverage to cameras made in 46 countries. camerapedia.wikia.com After some discussion on Camerapedia about its future, and on the discussion group for the Flickr group pool of images Brandon Stone announced that he had sold the domain name camerapedia.org to Wikia, and was moving the content of the website there. Since Jan 24th 2011 camerapedia.org has redirected to a copy (or newer version) of Camerapedia's content at camerapedia.wikia.com. camera-wiki.org Various Camerapedia editors and photo contributors were unhappy with the takeover of the site by Wikia and created an alternate, community supported, ad-free website under the name camera-wiki.org. Many major contributors begin removing thousands of photos from the Wikia-controlled Camerapedia Flickr pool and requested that Wikia remove them from their for-profit version of the wiki. In less than two weeks over 17,000 photos were added to the new camera-wiki.org flickr group and over 250 previous Camerapedia contributors moved to the community supported site. One of the goals of the new site is to create a non-profit legal entity to act as custodian of the domain name and manage the hosting, to prevent any one person from acting against the community interest again. 
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