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On December 18, 2002, PR Watch editor Sheldon Rampton attended a conference in Amsterdam hosted by World-Information.org and first learned about the successful Wikipedia project to develop a free open content encyclopedia. Using Wikipedia as a model, he created Disinfopedia in January 2003. The project was publicly launched on March 10, 2003.
