So interesting comparing pages in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy vs Wikipedia analogues: plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics vs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontolog.
SEP is consistently clearer—I think bc of the narrative form. Are there other domain-specific, expert-edited wikis like SEP?
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And looks like it's no longer being updated - latest articles seem to be 2017.
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It's a recurrent question around here :)
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Are there equivalents of plato.stanford.edu for other fields?
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Quartz did a nice overview of the process a couple of years ago: qz.com/480741/this-fr
We using this framework with some augmentation (eg NLP, NER, semantic ordering) for and its quite interesting.
As qz notes, narrative is optimised for being standalone
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I think it works really well where a quick pareto dive as it were is key for a complex topic versus wikipedias assumed knowledge that necessitates cross linking and jumping about.
Focus author with intention also.
Can think of it in terms of information depth vs width too
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First thing to come to mind is video game wikis. Some, like wow.gamepedia.com/?utm_source=Fa, are highly expansive and often surprisingly well edited.
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It may be because SEP entries are written by one person, who is also a domain expert, and probably also goes through an editorial procress.
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SEP truly is great. Another high quality wiki that I love:
learnlab.org/research/wiki/
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