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Revision as of 10:47, 16 October 2020
Encyc is a free general encyclopedia written by volunteers using collaborative wiki software.
We are here because we like to write encyclopedia articles. There is a need for simple well-written articles that are easy to change and mobile-friendly. Encyc is all about making the job of writing these documents easier, by reducing the barriers between readers and writers. Encyc is sensitive to the needs of our readers and wishes to provide the best experience possible.
All content submitted here is owned by the original contributors and licensed under the Creative Commons - Share Alike License in order to make it available for the widest number of readers. It's the same setup that has made Wikipedia so successful, and makes sharing between Encyc and Wikipedia relatively easy.
Encyc has been in existence for more than a decade, and is experiencing steady growth. Write a good article here, and it could be read by thousands of people. Some users have copied Wikipedia articles to Encyc, and enjoy working on them in a small group setting. You can make major changes, and let your personal writing style come through in your work.
Encyc has no complicated templates, advanced coding, or byzantine regulations for you to worry about. If you have a question, please pose it at the Questions discussion page. Better yet, start writing and see what happens.
Before using this website, please read our disclaimer.
Contact us
General questions
For general questions about Encyc or if you would like to apply for a user account:
Abuse
For complaints regarding copyright infringement, illegal content, publication of private identifying or personal information, or other violations:
Traffic numbers
Your writing has as good a chance of being read here as any other place on the internet. Our small scale, freedom from spam, relatively high traffic numbers, and policy of letting good content stand indefinitely mean that your work here is time well spent.
Check out Special:Statistics, our internal numbers, and Special:PopularPages.
Scholarly reception
Encyc has been referenced in three separate publications.
- Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, by Dariusz Jemielniak. Stanford University Press, May 14, 2014.
- Genre Analysis of Online Encyclopedias: The Case of Wikipedia, by Anna Tereszkiewic. 2010.
- Konidaris, Dimitrios N. "Social recommendations production at online e-learning platform using web 2.0 technologies." (2015). (translated from Κονιδάρης, Δημήτριος Ν. "Παραγωγή κοινωνικών συστάσεων σε διαδικτυακή πλατφόρμα ηλεκτρονικής μάθησης με χρήση τεχνολογιών web 2.0." (2015). using Google Translate.)