HandWiki

HandWiki: An Open-Edited Encyclopedia for Academic Concepts

HandWiki is an online encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit and contribute, similar to Wikipedia. It aims to provide accessible explanations of concepts across many academic fields.

What is HandWiki?

HandWiki is an online, wiki-based encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit and contribute content on a wide range of academic topics. Launched in 2018, it has the goal of providing accessible and understandable explanations of concepts across disciplines like science, engineering, humanities and more.

Like Wikipedia, HandWiki relies on crowdsourcing from volunteers to write, edit, and improve articles. However, it differentiates itself by focusing more narrowly on expert-written scientific and technical content, rather than the very broad scope of Wikipedia. Additionally, its editing interface and workflow are tuned more specifically for subject matter experts and researchers.

HandWiki uses structured data and standardized templates to help organize information within articles. This enables more consistent presentation of concepts, definitions, explanations, derivations, and references. Readers can drill down into the details in a modular way, rather than being faced with very lengthy pages. The templates also aid discovery and linking between related content.

Overall, HandWiki aims to leverage the wiki model to provide a constantly evolving platform for experts to collaborate on educational content on advanced topics. It hopes to fill a niche for technically accurate and in-depth, yet accessible explanations that go beyond what typical encyclopedias like Wikipedia are intended for.

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