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| slogan               = The wikipedia of all things Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
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'''Sarkarverse''' is the wikipedia (wiki encyclopedia) of all things [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]]. The name ''Sarkarverse'' is a blend of the words ''Sarkar'' (referring to Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar) and ''universe'' (all elements pertaining to a subject).<ref name="Amrevolution.org_2014-06-04c">{{cite web |url=http://amrevolution.org/sarkarverse/ |title=Sarkarverse » Absolutely Methodical Revolution |newspaper=Amrevolution.org |date=  |last= |accessdate=2014-06-04}}</ref>

== History ==
Sarkarverse was officially launched on 2013 October 21 by [[Ac.]] [[Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]. In early 2013, Abhidevananda and a few other editors were working on Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar related articles in [[:wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]. There, their series of articles were repeatedly challenged. Even a small article on Sarkar's collection of 5,018 songs, [[Prabhat Samgiita]], required over two weeks (17 days) of [[:wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prabhat Samgiita|heated debate]] just to pass Wikipedia's capitalistic concept of notability. In the end, most of the Sarkar-related articles were deleted, merged, or reduced to trivial and largely misleading content. After this experience, Abhidevananda withdrew from Wikipedia, storing the Sarkar-related articles from Wikipedia on the website [[onlyhis.name]]. In the preface to the early project on that website, Abhidevananda wrote:<ref>[http://archive.is/yu0Am Archived copy of the preface]</ref>

<blockquote>As is well-known, Wikipedia suffers from a considerable amount of systemic bias. Furthermore, many senior editors openly acknowledge that Wikipedia does not "do truth". An over-reliance on secondary sources often results in articles that are nothing but book reviews of book reviews.</blockquote>

Abhidevananda wanted to create a Wikipedia-like encyclopedia for Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar and his various works. In early October 2013, Sarkarverse was planned, and work on the project began. The project was made possible only with tremendous, voluntary assistance, primarily from Tito Dutta in India and Bryan G. White in the USA. Fred Bauder (USA) also provided considerable help. All three men are veterans of Wikipedia with technical expertise vital to Sarkarverse.

== Early spam attacks and countermeasures ==
On 2013 October 27, Sarkarverse faced a serious spam attack. More than 100 new accounts were created to post inappropriate articles with external links. All 100+ accounts were quickly blocked, and new account creation in Sarkarverse was temporarily disabled. Account creation was re-enabled on October 28 after imposing various spam counter-measures. However, within days the spam accounts were cropping up again, less in number but still a nuisance. On November 2, a long-term decision was taken to disable new account creation except by [mailto:admin@sarkarverse.org?subject=AccountCreation direct request]. This was deemed to be the most efficient means of preventing spam with minimal inconvenience for well-intentioned editors, both old and new.

== Other versions ==
On 2014 February 21, Sarkarverse was made available in three more languages— Bengali, French and Hindi. In June 2014, a Finnish version of Sarkarverse was launched.

== Mission ==
The mission of Sarkarverse is to present accurate and verifiable information about all of the many direct and indirect works of Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. 

== Methodology ==
Sarkarverse is a collaborative endeavor. It uses MediaWiki software and a Wiki environment.

=== Site data ===
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=== Alexa rank ===
As of 2018 May 4, the site's Alexa global rank is  3,900,579. In January 2019 Sarkaverse's global rank was  4,011,157.<ref name="Alexa 2018-05">[https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sarkarverse.org Alexa ranking]</ref>

== Sponsorship ==
Sarkarverse is one of the two educational wings of [[AmRevolution, Inc.]], a [https://sarkarverse.org/images/a/aa/501%28c%29%283%29_Letter.png 501(c)(3) non-profit organization] in the United States, registered with '''Charity ID: 45-4824461'''.

== See also ==
* [[Anandamarga.org]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.amrevolution.org/ Official website of AmRevolution, Inc.]
* [http://www.anandamarga.org/ Official website of Ananda Marga]

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