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PhiloPedia:The Philosophy Wiki - HomeWelcome to PhiloPedia, the philosophy wiki at onlinephilosophyclub.com! PhiloPedia is a publicly editable encyclopedia about philosophy, philosophers and other topics of particular interest to philosophy professors, philosophy students, amateur philosophers or anyone else engaged in philosophical research. You can find facts as simple as, 'when was the philosopher Kant born,' as well as broader and more in-depth explanations of any certain philosophical idea. Although anyone can edit this wiki, you must register an account first, and we do have strictly enforced editing rules. On PhiloPedia you will never see a "(citation needed)" or "(disputed)" note after a statement because only undisputed, cited facts are allowed. This wiki runs on the software PmWiki. The basic editing page describes how to create pages in PmWiki. The MarkupMasterIndex also provides a good resource for learning how to editing pages. You can practice editing in the wiki sandbox. This will likely all be very familiar if you have edited wikis before; otherwise, although it may seem complex, you will actually catch on very fast. If you have any questions you can also ask in the Feedback Section of the Philosophy Forums. A local copy of PmWiki's documentation has been installed along with the software, and is available via the documentation index, but much of that is more useful for administrators than users. PhiloPedia GoalsDifferences to WikipediaI created PhiloPedia NOT to simply be a copy of the philosophy section of sites like Wikipedia. PhiloPedia needs to provide something useful and new. While sites like Wikipedia have long, useful entries for most philosophers and philosophical topics, these entries are written for the average viewer rather than with a focus on someone researching philosophy. For instance, if you look up the word 'Christianity' in Wikipedia, you would have to sift through a whole lot of information that has little to do with philosophy, whereas we can write an article that still provides a more philosophically-slanted choice of included or excluded details. There is another major way we can differentiate ourselves from sites like Wikipedia. Because our scope is narrowed down to philosophy rather than everything, we can hold ourselves to very strict standards that would be impractical on a site that covers as many topics as Wikipedia. In other words, we can cover a smaller selection of topics with much greater quality rather than deal with quantity. Following is a list of some of those stricter standards we will have here:
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Please remember to use the preview function before saving your edits to make sure they come out right and avoid clogging the edit log with numerous self-corrections. Basic Editing FunctionalityTo edit pages you will need to be registered in our forums. You will use the same username and password to edit PhiloPedia as you use to login to the forums. You can edit any page in the main part of PhiloPedia except this page. You will NOT be able to edit parts of the site, namely the sidebar. You will also NOT be able to edit pages in special subgroups, such as the PmWiki documentation. |