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- Annotated link list. And donation!Hello encyclopedia lovers, We have great news: last month we deposited a $300,000 grant from FUTO, a new org founded to “develop technology and share knowledge that gives control of computers back to the people.” We are hugely grateful to FUTO. We are also grateful to over 100 of you who have donated, together, well over $10,000.We… Continue reading Annotated link list. And donation!
- Developers, Help Save Deleted ArticlesHi Developers (especially), You might have seen recently in the news that Wikipedia deleted their Rosemont Seneca Partners article. We think there ought to be a collection of all deleted Wikipedia articles, or the subset of deleted ones that are not just obvious spam or vandalism. The Deletionpedia website, which saved copies of deleted Wikipedia articles, is now defunct. The KSF now… Continue reading Developers, Help Save Deleted Articles
- KSF Progress ReportSince last December, the Knowledge Standards Foundation has made great progress, so we have a lot of big news, from the top of this newsletter to the bottom! 1. Explainer video premieres tomorrow @ 11 a.m. EST:The Universal Network of Encyclopedias: A Progress Report Premieres Tuesday, 11 a.m. Eastern; about 50 minutes. YouTube or Rumble. Add it to your calendar!… Continue reading KSF Progress Report
- The gift of knowledge… last chance for 2021Happy New Year! We raised $15,535 from 84 donors this month, so that’s nice. You could help bump it up over $20K today, and have a tax-deductible donation for 2021. The latest news: We’re making progress on all fronts, EncycloReader, EncycloSearch, Minifeed. You’ll see big improvements in all of these within the next month or two. We are actively… Continue reading The gift of knowledge… last chance for 2021
- The encyclosphere is growing; $1M in matching fundsHere’s our Nov. 30, 2021 “Giving Tuesday” announcement. We’re building the universal network of encyclopedias. The Knowledge Standards Foundation, as you probably know, is making the technology of decentralization. We’re focused especially on what is needed for a decentralized network of encyclopedias. FUTO.org, a new nonprofit committed to the technology of freedom, supported the KSF with grants of… Continue reading The encyclosphere is growing; $1M in matching funds
- Press Release: Wikipedia Co-Founder to Launch Roundtable Discussion on “Universal Network of Encyclopedias”Modeled After the Decentralized Blogosphere, the New Encyclosphere Aims to Incorporate All Existing Encyclopedias COLUMBUS, OHIO, August 31, 2021—At a cultural moment in which the media is becoming ever more opinionated and centralized—and less trusted to report all the facts—Dr. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, is announcing an initiative to decentralize the world’s encyclopedias. A… Continue reading Press Release: Wikipedia Co-Founder to Launch Roundtable Discussion on “Universal Network of Encyclopedias”
- The liberating effects of data formatting standardsWe at the Knowledge Standards Foundation speak about an “encyclopedia network” and about “standards” for the entire network architecture. And it probably is a good idea to be thinking about that. But, having explored a number of different attempts to decentralize social media, I have come around to a simple view about what we really… Continue reading The liberating effects of data formatting standards
- The Latest from the Knowledge Standards FoundationThe Knowledge Standards Foundation has a lot of news, in approximately chronological order: After a casual call for donations on Twitter last fall, Foundation President Larry Sanger managed to find our first significant donation, $100,000 plus legal expenses paid. We soon thereafter restarted organizing things in the Slack group. Larry published a book, Essays on… Continue reading The Latest from the Knowledge Standards Foundation
- Guest post: Encyclosphere – possible structure and article formatIt is proposed that the article format be XML-based with a combination of custom elements and RDF inspired attributes. HTML might initially seem like a good option due to its broad usage and familiarity, however HTML is not semantic in origin. Attempting to extract meaning from generic HTML is an effort in heuristic and error-prone guess work. HTML has also grown quite vast in size and complexity, containing well over 100 tags, 100 attributes, dozens of style settings and programming hooks, the vast majority of which are not applicable to general read-only encyclopedic style articles.
- Guest post: User story on ratings and editsThis is intended to be an example of the activities that the encyclosphere standards and protocols should support. It follows on from user story 1, which introduces “sciepedia.org”, a hypothetical online science encyclopedia. Kevin is a regular user of sciepedia.org, and has contributed to a number of articles on the subject of high-energy physics. He… Continue reading Guest post: User story on ratings and edits