Scholarpedia is an excellent resource for what Wikipedia calls "original research" (though truly original material should be published, of course, either traditionally or on the arXiv). I'm not familiar with the others. Knol was an attempt to do something similar but it was not successful and I think Google closed it. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Robert Munafo <mrob27@gmail.com> wrote:
I read messages in order, so I sent an answer before reading other people's answers.
There is some pretty good organized competition for Wikipedia.
Everything2 ( http://everything2.com/ ) was established quite a while before Wikipedia, and roughly at the same time Google's search was beginning to compete with Alta Vista. Their philosophy is that everyone can write their own article on each topic, and no-one can edit anyone else's writings. (But you can send messages to other users and hope they like your suggestions.)
Since you mention normal journal publishing, I suppose you are familiar with peer review… so I suppose I should mention Scholarpedia ( http://www.scholarpedia.org/ ), and Citizendium ( http://en.citizendium.org/ ) which appears to be similar. These have less content, so there's a good chance they're actually harder to contribute to, but maybe they're just growing slowly.
There have been others I've run across in the past 15 years, but my memory's not so good…
On 6/3/12, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Well, the guys/gals I ran into certainly did a pretty mean goose-step. Life's too short [...] [...] I suspect that the Brits will then develop YAWP (Yet Another WikiPedia) for academics that will have different rules -- rules more akin to normal journal publishing rules.
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