Elaborating on the Gridcoin wikipedia page (without changing wikipedia)

[grctest]

Gridcoin has a wikipedia page unlike most cryptocurrency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridcoin

Updates to Gridcoin's history there seem to end at 2017, but there's plenty of things that have happened which aren't mentioned, such as:

• The removal of the team requirement
• The whitelist/greylist system
• The implementation of manual reward claims
• The implementation of the scraper oracles
• The constant block reward system
• The implementation and usage of the voting system
• The winning of multiple BOINC competitions consecutively
  • 1st: https://www.formula-boinc.org/archives/index.py?year=2020&lang=en&team=&thanks=
  • 1st: https://www.formula-boinc.org/archives/index.py?year=2019&lang=en
  • 1st: https://www.formula-boinc.org/archives/index.py?year=2018&lang=en
  • 1st: https://www.formula-boinc.org/archives/index.py?year=2017&lang=en
  • 1st: https://www.formula-boinc.org/archives/index.py?year=2016&lang=en
  • 5th: https://www.formula-boinc.org/archives/index.py?year=2015&lang=en
• The controversy of gridcoin being banned from BOINC competitions
  • From nothing, to 5th, to 5 consecutive years of 1st place, to being banned from competing due to always coming 1st place, like removing Ferrari from formula one.

It also follows quite a different format from other cryptocurreny wiki pages

• Most have sections: History, Design, Usage, Achievements/Milestones
• Most don't delve into past software vulnerabilities

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Re The whitelist/greylist system & the wikipedia entry opening:

"Gridcoin (abbreviation: GRC) is a cryptocurrency which rewards volunteer computing performed on the BOINC network.[1][4][5][6] Originally developed to support SETI@home,[7] it has also been used for research in other areas."

Compared to the Gridcoin.us intro:

"Gridcoin is an open source cryptocurrency (Ticker: GRC) that rewards volunteer computing for science through the BOINC platform and Folding@home."

There is no singular 'BOINC network', there's a mutually developed platform which anyone can use to run their own BOINC project; there isn't centralized control over any such network.

Gridcoin also doesn't reward all BOINC based volunteer computing, but rather a subset of projects which are voted onto a whitelist. This concept is missing from the wiki, as is the current BOINC project whitelist contents.

Gridcoin is mentioned as open source on its main website intro, but not in the intro on its gridcoin wiki entry. Bitcoin has mention of open source code in its introduction.

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Re the software vulnerability section:

"An exploit was demonstrated in August 2017 that revealed the emails of Gridcoin users and allowed the theft of other users work. The research team disclosed the vulnerability to the developers in September 2016, and the patch for the vulnerability was released in March 2017 with version 3.5.8.7, however the implementation of the fix introduced other issues.[10]"

IIRC They did not in fact disclose the vulnerability properly, they sent an email to an unmonitored address, then it was publicly disclosed before the fix was in place, no?

What other issues were introduced by the fix? Surely commentary about march 2017 code is inconsistent with 2025 code? Thus the wiki shouldn't end the sentence on "the fix introduced other issues." without elaborating?

Bitcoin for example also had vulnerabilities, yet their wiki doesn't mention this at all.

[barton2526]

Do not touch the wikipedia page. All edits are being reverted by an anti-crypto Wikipedia moderator. We have been warned that making further edits to the page may result in its removal entirely.

Gridcoin is mentioned as open source on its main website intro, but not in the intro on its gridcoin wiki entry. Bitcoin has mention of open source code in its introduction.

This is an example of something that the moderators reverted. Check the history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gridcoin&action=history

[jamescowens]

@grctest @barton2526 is right on this. I tried to update it a couple of years ago and got my face kicked in by that moderator. Sure wish we could fix this...

[grctest]

Understood, I know that wikipedia's editing system is highly contentious - I had heard about moderation requiring a high degree of sourcing for changes.

Worth talking through the errors and missing information in here at least, to let the record show and if in the future we're allowed to make changes there'll be proper contents that meets wikipedia's standards to use.

As it stands it's missing a lot of information, includes errors and misleads people with regards to the future of Gridcoin after 2017, IMO.

[jamescowens]

We should write up how we want the page to actually look. I agree. Worth the effort. Isn't there a crypto wiki that this would be valuable for that is not associated with wikipedia?