The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of — Quartz

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of — Quartz
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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the most interesting website on the #internet. Not because of the content—which includes fascinating entries on everything from ambiguity to zombies—but because of the site itself.

Its creators have solved one of the internet’s fundamental problems: How to provide authoritative, rigorously accurate knowledge, at no cost to readers. It’s something the encyclopedia, or SEP, has managed to do for two decades.

►https://plato.stanford.edu

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This free online #encyclopedia has achieved what #Wikipedia can only dream of - Quartz
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Another benefit of the [#Stanford_Encyclopedia_of_Philosophy] SEP’s not being #crowdsourced is that minority views get more exposure. Wikipedia’s overview of feminist philosophy is hopelessly short. The SEP has dozens of meticulously researched entries. A 2012 survey by Wikimedia, Wikipedia’s parent organization, found that about 90% of its volunteers were men. “Its entries on Pokemon and female porn stars are comprehensive, but its pages on female novelists or places in sub-Saharan Africa are sketchy,” said the MIT Technology Review in its article The Decline of Wikipedia, which criticizes its byzantine editing hierarchy. The same goes for an important idea in philosophy: feminism. Wikipedia’s overview of feminist philosophy is hopelessly short. The SEP, on the other hand, is home to dozens of meticulously researched entries on the topic.

So the SEP model works, and it has 1,500 fact-checked, peer-reviewed entries to prove it.

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The #internet should look more like the SEP

The SEP is a highly rare case of knowledge being separated from the trash heap. The question is, can we make more of the internet like this?

#open_access avec un business model très intéressant (les bibliothèques universitaires investissent dans une fondation qui offre la promesse de mises à jour ad vitam eternam, promesse soutenue par la fondation-mère de Stanford).