eldavojohn writes “For decades, Stanford has been working on a different kind of Wikipedia. It might even be considered closer to a peer-reviewed journal, since you have get submissions past a 120 person group of leading philosophers around the world, not to mention Stanford’s administration. It has several layers of approval, but the authoritative model produces high quality content — even if it only amounts to 1,200 articles. Content you can read straight through to find everything pertinent — not hop around following link after link like the regular Wikipedia. You might question the need for this, but one of the originators says, ‘Our model is authoritative. [Wikipedia's] model is one an academic isn’t going to be attracted to. If you are a young academic, who might spend six months preparing a great article on Thomas Aquinas, you’re not going to publish in a place where anyone can come along and change this.’ The site has articles covering topics from Quantum Computing to technical luminaries like Kurt Friedrich G
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Stanford’s Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia
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