industryterm:online encyclopedia

Will #everipedia Bring Respectability Back to the World of Online Encyclopedias?
▻https://hackernoon.com/everipedia-brings-respectability-back-to-the-world-of-digital-encycloped

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Everipedia, an extended fork of #wikipedia, is a blockchain-based #encyclopedia that returns integrity and democratization to its subjects on the internet.Photo Credit: EveripediaBritannica, Encarta, and Wikipedia — the three main digital encyclopedias of our time, have — in combination — provided us with an abundance of information and knowledge.Having been around for over 244 years, Britannica contained over 100,000 articles along with Merriam-Webster’s U.S. Dictionary and Thesaurus, but cost a fortune. It set the stage for competitors like Encarta (now discontinued) and Wikipedia to take the stage. Wikipedia has certainly become the most dominant alternative to the Britannica.Here we are: in the 21st century, sitting in front of a plethora number of black mirrors, screens, and electronic (...)

#brock-pierce #tokenization

Why #everipedia Exists and Why I Enjoy Contributing to it: A Call to Action
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Why Everipedia Exists and Why I Enjoy Contributing to It: A Call to ActionEveripedia launched in 2015 with the idea of reimagining how the encyclopedia works. As Paul Graham said in his newsletter over 10 years ago, “There is room to do to #wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica,” and he is right more than ever. Before in the print era, we were constrained by the binding of books in what we could put in an encyclopedia. In the information age, why would we keep limiting ourselves when we have the capacity to host millions upon millions of pages? And with new notable concepts and memes (pertaining to the evolution of the idea) rising to the forefront daily, we will have to sooner rather than later. If Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia for traditional knowledge, then Everipedia is (...)

#inclusionism #why-everipedia #everipedia-partnership

Jimmy Wales of #wikipedia
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Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, tells us why his initial attempt at creating an online encyclopedia failed and what he learned from that venture which allowed Wikipedia to succeed. Along the way, he also shares with us his approach to building a successful business in today’s digital world.This #interview was originally written by Justin Runyon from ProwritingserviceLessons Learned from NupediaWales’ first attempt at building a free online encyclopedia started with the creation of Nupedia in March 2000. Inspired by the growth of the free software movement and the new models of collaboration that were sprouting online, Wales set about working on a project he felt would be greatly beneficial to the world — something others would be passionate about and would be willing to give up their time (...)

#jimmy-wales #founder-stories

How to Build a Search Engine for Mathematics - Issue 29: Scaling
▻http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/how-to-build-a-search-engine-for-mathematics

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On the average summer Saturday, the mathematician Neil Sloane woke up to a crisis. “There are always crises,” he said— albeit crises of the teapot tempest variety. One Saturday over breakfast, he faced an inbox message titled “edits from outer space.” Without authorization, a contributor in France had deleted an entry in Sloane’s Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, which, like Wikipedia, is powered by volunteer contributors and editors. The Day’s Work: Neil Sloane in his attic study, command central for the encyclopedia. He has taped to the wall an epigram from Kipling that reads “He had a theory that if a man did not stay by his work all day and most of the night he laid himself open to fever: so he ate and slept among his files.”Siobhan Roberts But everyday, tending his encyclopedia (...)

Abby Martin Censored on Wikipedia: Editing Truth by Mob Rule
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/abby-martin-censored-on-wikipedia-editing-truth-by-mob-rule

Abby Martin goes over the editing practices of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and calls out the websites editors for their lack of all-encompassing points of view. LIKE Breaking the Set @...

Online encyclopedia of mass violence

The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (OEMV) is a regularly updated electronic database focusing on massacres and genocides of the 20th century. Currently, there is no tool available that documents and classifies our knowledge by continent, country and historical period. The OEMV’s first objective is to fill this gap by offering reliable historical description and interdisciplinary analysis of both well-documented and less well-known 20th century massacres. Resources provided include chronological indexes, case studies, analytical contributions on socio-political violence in a given country, a glossary of the terms most often used in the field of genocide studies as well as theoretical papers written by the most representative authors in the field.

Such a unique database will not only be valuable to scholars, but also to the NGO community, international legal experts, policy makers and journalists. It is a unique online publication in the academic landscape, responding to high academic criteria while being available to the wider public. Our first aim is to undertake an unprecedented effort to bring together the highest quality scholarship in the field.

This project was initiated in 2004 by Sciences Po Paris (Center for International Research and Studies). It has taken us nearly four years to get the OEMV ready to be put on line. Considering the highly sensitive nature of this project and the relative novelty of this field of research, this maturation period has proved valuable. The gradual construction of this web site is the result of genuine teamwork on the part of computer specialists and researchers, who endeavored to coordinate technical, scientific and ethical criteria.

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#encyclopédie #génocide #violence #base_de_données #OEMV #massacres

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#Guerre #Conflits #Violence #Massviolence

The Project - Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence

►http://www.massviolence.org/-The-Project-

«Writing history… aims at calming the dead who still haunt the present, and at offering them scriptural tombs.»

Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History, New York and Chichester, Columbia University Press, 1988.

The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence (OEMV) is a regularly updated electronic database focusing on massacres and genocides of the 20th century. Currently, there is no tool available that documents and classifies our knowledge by continent, country and historical period. The OEMV’s first objective is to fill this gap by offering reliable historical description and interdisciplinary analysis of both well-documented and less well-known 20th century massacres. Resources provided include chronological indexes, case studies, analytical contributions on socio-political violence in a given country, a glossary of the terms most often used in the field of genocide studies as well as theoretical papers written by the most representative authors in the field.

Internet Entreprise Digital Index

The Digital 100 Power Index - The Daily Beast

►http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/06/24/the-digital-100-power-index.html

Jun 25, 2012

To paraphrase Gandhi: First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. And then—when you black out the sixth-largest website on the planet for an entire day—you win.

This is what Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales learned about power on Jan. 18, 2012. The online encyclopedia had once been a novelty: written by everyone, it could contain errors from anyone, as when Stephen Colbert doctored the entry for George Washington in 2006, asserting falsely that he had not owned slaves. But the idea behind Wikipedia was powerful enough to survive pranks, as the service grew to become an essential reference tool for hundreds of millions of users. And late last year, when two bills working their way through the U.S. Congress threatened the site’s ability to function, Wales knew it was time to flex his digital muscles. In coordination with other web giants, Wikipedia went dark in protest, a blunt demonstration to lawmakers of just how dependent the wired world had become on its model. Less than 48 hours later, the legislation was dead.