The Justapedia Foundation (JPF) is a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization dedicated to providing and operating an open source, fact-based, objective encyclopedia that will remain free to the world in perpetuity. Foundation headquarters at the time of origin are located in north Texas.  Betty Wills is founder, CEO/president, Sean Fussell is Vice-President/Treasurer, Josh Blanchard is CTO, Ryan Ashe is Secretary, and Laraine Abbey-Katzev is Member at Large, comprising the Executive Committee that manages the Foundation and its projects, including the American English encyclopedia, Justapedia.

The Foundation is dedicated to maintaining a friendly and welcoming community for its volunteers, and is looking forward to hosting fun educational activities, spirited debates and various sponsorships and endowments with the help of tax deductible donations. The Foundation provides the platform for Justapedia® as part of its mission to maintain and protect the spirit of objectivity with fact-based content by volunteers who freely contribute to the documentation and preservation of factual knowledge in perpetuity.

 

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Our mission is to facilitate the creation, sharing, and dissemination of knowledge by providing the format, tools and environment that upholds the fundamental principles of fact-based knowledge, objective truth, and collegiality. By hosting and operating Justapedia, a free and open-source encyclopedia, we enable individuals to contribute to the collective wealth of human understanding while adhering to the highest standards of integrity, diversity and inclusivity.​

 

 

 

Justapedia's purpose is to document, maintain,  and preserve factual history per the following standards: 

• Justapedia shall not to be used to editorialize or pass judgment; rather, its role as an encyclopedia is to document factual history objectively, present the full fact pattern with context, and let readers draw their own conclusions. 

• Every claim is sourced — ideally with multiple citations from across the spectrum.

• Context is explained — not just what happened, but why it mattered historically, culturally, or doctrinally.

• No editorial spin — we don’t tell readers what to think, we give them the information to think for themselves.

• Balance comes from sources — by including credible outlets across perspectives, we create a fuller picture without bias.

Our articles are created and edited by volunteer editors with a good command of the English language. Our policies and guidelines include, but are not limited to:

• Justapedia’s manual of style (JP:MOS),

• (JP:BLP),Justapedia:Biographies of living persons (JP:BLP) particularly its core content policies concerning Justapedia's policies and guidelines (JP:PAG),

• Justapedia:Neutral point of view (JP:NPOV), No original research (JP:NOR) and Justapedia:Verifiability (JP:NOR);     

 

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Justapedia is an independent wiki with its own policies and guidelines, its own articles, and its own volunteers called Justapedists. The Foundation was founded by Betty Wills in October 2022, whereas the platform and encyclopedia wasn't made public until August 9, 2023. It was initially populated with articles licensed under the Commons license CC-BY-SA for the explicit purpose of rewriting them to fit Justapedia's standards for encyclopedic content. The same free license also applies to revisions and new articles authored by Justapedia volunteers.

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The Feature Showcase is a Justapedia® project on the main page that features a side by side comparison with articles from other encyclopedias that lack objectivity, and/or include propaganda or biased opinions.  The latter fails to comply with Justapedia's core content policies (JP:PAG), which makes those article topics ideal candidates for our side-by-side comparisons in the Feature Showcase. 

To be considered for featuring on Justapedia's main page (Feature Showcase), articles must demonstrate:

• Strong command of American English — clear, grammatical, engaging, and professional-level writing.

• Commitment to objectivity — presenting significant viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, in line with Justapedia's neutral and objective point of view  principles.

• Balanced sourcing — citing a diverse, representative range of reliable sources to ensure factual content reflects all major perspectives proportionally and avoids undue weight.

• Strict compliance with Justapedia:Biographies of living persons (JP:BLP) — all biographies (and any living-person content) must fully adhere to this policy, prioritizing verifiability, sensitivity, privacy, and conservative handling of potentially contentious material.

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