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Show HN: Encycla, Git-based collaborative encyclopedia

13 pointsby philipnover 3 years ago

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philipnover 3 years ago
Me and my cofounder Chris have been quietly working on Encycla for a while now. Previously, I started LocalWiki[1] and DavisWiki[2]. What I couldn&#x27;t stop thinking about was: is Wikipedia really &quot;it&quot; in terms of web-wide knowledge sharing?<p>There&#x27;s been lots of note-taking apps and personal knowledge sharing tools developed in the past few years. But there&#x27;s a big difference between working with people you already know and collaborating with anyone on the internet.<p>Right now, if you&#x27;re interested in, say DIY air purifiers[3], you could throw up a document or webpage. But there&#x27;s no good way for people you don&#x27;t already know to work on it, to make it their own. If you&#x27;re writing software, the answer is obvious: publish a Git repository on GitHub&#x2F;GitLab.<p>With Encycla, we&#x27;re building a sort of &quot;GitHub for knowledge&quot;: a place where you can create simple, topical webpages that others can fork and asynchronously push &amp; pull changes from (without knowing about Git or anything technical).<p>On the backend, every page on Encycla is a git repository containing Markdown that you can clone, edit independently of the Encycla website, push to other services (such as GitHub, GitLab), etc.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;localwiki.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;localwiki.org</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;localwiki.org&#x2F;davis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;localwiki.org&#x2F;davis</a><p>3. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encycla.com&#x2F;Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;encycla.com&#x2F;Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube</a>
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