Shower Thoughts

Has anyone in crypto world attempted to make a (better) alternative to Wikipedia? Given the editorial tilt of Wikipedia, this seems like such a big, meaningful project to take on. It's one that's also super difficult. Would require $ and a better plan on how to organize and sustain the editorial.

it's had a left leaning bias for a while. but more so, there's a small, very weird community that has a huge impact on it. If you want to go down a rabbit hole: https://manhattan.institute/article/is-wikipedia-politically-biased

it's had a left leaning bias for a while. but more so, there's a small, very weird community that has a huge impact on it. If you want to go down a rabbit hole: https://manhattan.institute/article/is-wikipedia-politically-biased https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin

what's the biggest issue with wikipedia?

i presume it could be forked and re-edited but how would that make it better?

https://iq.wiki/

hard to balance incentives, where most wikipedia editors are just passionate about the work vs. financial compensation

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this is my experience as well. there's an uncanny valley when it comes to getting quality. it's either free and open or centralized and paid. the middle tends to fail.

From all the crypto experiences I’ve seen: token incentives to contribute are the death of quality.

But would be amazing to have a solution to this…

A community notes built-in powered by token incentives to contribute, fact-check - correct.

Could be really good. I hope someone starts a meaningful narrative in this direction.

there's an ipfs mirror, but I doubt it's current (nor are the censored parts fixed).

I literally just did this: Project Onchain Wikipedia

You can edit drafts of the article in the "Edit" tab

All the drafts, or just topics are discussed in the "Talk" tab

I literally just did this: Project Onchain Wikipedia
https://projectonchainwikipedia.vercel.app/

Mintter looks like a good place to do it 😉

Mintter looks like a good place to do it 😉

https://mintter.com/

I think we might have a better, decentralized version but I don’t see how. Token incentives for contributiona sounds like low effort spam

Hmmm this is actually a really good idea 🤔