Introduction to Whackpedia
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The Mission of Whackpedia
It is now 2008, and for a very long time we have been dreaming of a society where ideas are shared quickly, and research happens at a rapid rate. With the advent of internet research has indeed become thousand fold faster, but there are still bottlenecks in the methods used in research and development. It can take a good six months after writing a novel research paper to get it reviewed and published. This creates a huge lag in the rate at which real research happens, because only after research has been reviewed and published does the process of building upon it even begin. This is why development in the industry moves much faster than the development in academia, because in the industry it is about getting the product out fast, and not about the long periods of time spent trying to get a paper published about it.
Well, starting now in 2008, we intend to change that. We would like people to be able to record ideas, and do collaborative research on topics effecting human life and society, without the long delays. It will also help establish better understanding and more coherence in the ideas around the globe. Sites like Wikipedia make great databases of collective information but they are restricted to only publishing well accepted and pre-published materials, while thousands of people are individually blogging about the information they are getting. Yet, how many of these thousands of blogs actually get read? One piece of information appears, and everyone has similar thoughts about it, and we see thousands of blogs with the same information, but there is no vertical integration of the information, which is what eventually leads to new ideas and concepts. Social networking websites allow local discussion of topics, but there the discussions get buried under click the next button to see the next 10 posts, and often the discussions are not long lasting and do not actually lead to any significant impact.
There are many serious and significant problems man today faces. Take for example predicting earthquakes. We still have not come up with any serious method of predicting earthquakes, and the methods and ways by which research papers are written and published, it could perhaps take another hundred years before we can start properly predicting these devastating beasts. But by bringing together the ideas of thousands of people, and allowing the brilliant ideas to come up about without the tedium of writing a research paper and getting it published, might actually allow for a solution much sooner. The intention of Whackpedia is to discuss such important issues, and bring more meaning to human life and build a healthier planet.
To Make Your Personalized Whackpedia Profile
To get started, first register. Then create your user profile by clicking your username on Special:Listusers. Your neat looking profile will automatically also provide you a link for your personalized wiki page, which you can organize however you choose.
Why is Whackpedia different from existing discussion forums?
- Whackpedia is different from all the other discussion forums because your posts and comments are not static, and can be dynamically updated as the discussion proceeds, and when strong conclusions are reached, discussions can be cleaned up to exhibit the conclusion of the discussions
- Whackpedia is different from all the other discussion forums because your posts and comments don't get buried under next click buttons, and can be quickly searched for at any later time
- Whackpedia is different because the discussions can be interlinked, split into various topics and parts if they grow long, and merged if two discussions are leading down the same path
Why is Whackpedia different from Wikipedia?
- Whackpedia is different from Wikipedia in that it is not an encyclopedia, it permits users to add information such as how to do something, rss feeds, images and videos, original research, discussions and more
- Whackpedia even lets people create their own personalized profiles and wiki pages unlike Wikipedia
- Whackpedia even lets you play games and more for fun!
There is more discussion at Wikipedia versus Whackpedia about this
Still have more questions?
Well try it out, we promise you will like your experience on Whackpedia, and you have nothing to lose by trying it out. You will find that Whackpedia is a very unique site, providing direct benefits to both the authors, and the community.
