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Like Wikipedia, The Louverture Project is built and maintained by a community of users, all of whom have access to and responsibility for editing the 454 pages (and growing) currently online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louverture Project (TLP) collects and promotes knowledge, analysis, and understanding of the Haitian revolution of 1791\u20131804. This unique history project follows the example of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, and is committed to creating a vast, accessible, and useful open content resource. Like Wikipedia, The Louverture Project is built and maintained by a community of users, all of whom have access to and responsibility for editing the 454 pages (and growing) currently online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/the-louverture-project-a-free-haitian-history-resource\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/03\/iz-serius-bizness\/","url_meta":{"origin":622,"position":0},"title":"Iz Serius Bizness!","date":"March 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"According to a recent research project reported in New Scientist, \" Wikipedians are 'closed' and 'disagreeable'.\" Those carrying out the study were \"surprised that contributors scored low for agreeableness and openness to new ideas, given that contributing to the website is based on sharing knowledge\". 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