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Famepedia is the best alternative of Wikipedia says Sunil Butolia

Sunil Butolia, the founder of Famepedia, started a Wikipedia-like website and now it’s ready for public use. Famepedia was first created on 1st July 2019 and now relaunched as an alternative to Wikipedia.
Since Wikipedia’s article is very tough to create, so Famepedia can be very useful, and it also supports custom Schema Markups which are very helpful to achieve Google’s Knowledge Panel.
Sunil Butolia says “I always wanted a website where people can easily create their profile page which can help them to achieve Google knowledge panel”.
Recently Sunil Butolia made it possible to publish news articles and interviews on Famepedia which is really a good feature, and helpful for young & talented people to get featured.
Features of Famepedia
- Free of charge
- No ads
- 100% open source (code)
- Running the most recent version of MediaWiki, the software that powers Wikipedia
- Offering a competitive collection of optional extensions
- HTTPS secured pages
- Friendly volunteer community support, open to your requests
- Free template database and free image repository
- Possibility to have VisualEditor and StructuredDiscussions
- Possible to put custom schema markup
- Can help to achieve Google’s knowledge panel
About Famepedia
Famepedia is India’s largest free encyclopedia was founded by Sunil Butolia in July 2019 to provide a better alternative to Wikipedia to support talented artists, content creators, and influencers.
Sunil Butolia launched Famepedia on 18th July 2019 to provide a better alternative to Wikipedia and Wikidata and set the slogan “Create the Fortune”. Famepedia is a dot-com company owned by FAME Internet, headquartered in New Delhi, India.
History of Famepedia
It’s founder Sunil Butolia is very creative since his childhood and has special interests in the internet. He was attracted to Google’s Knowledge Panel (also known as Knowledge Graph), he wished to have his own Knowledge panel. In 2018 finally, he developed his own knowledge panel and this process taught him many interesting things which are required to have a knowledge panel up ie: Schema Markup, Microdata, and Structured Data.
Sunil Butolia has created Wikipedia articles for politicians and sportspersons from his community to technically support them. He felt the requirement for a Wikipedia alternative and in 2019, he decided to create his own Wiki website where biographical articles can be created to support talented artists, actors, and influencers.
He developed Famepedia on 18th July 2019. In starting, Famepedia was generating only basic hCard Metadata and it needs to be upgraded. On 16th October 2020, Sunil Butolia has successfully implemented fully customisable Schema Markups into Famepedia and made the platform more powerful as Wikidata. Now all types of Schema Markups can be added to Famepedia as per the requirements of the user.