Under Featured Learning Resources section the first entry is “What does it take to build a UFO? by the History Channel”, and under the Recent Blogs I see the preview starts with “If you are reading this blog, you are a certifiable smart person…”
I wouldn’t say it’s spam. I’d say that all of the odd entries on the home page are promoting personal projects and interests of Sergei Chekanov, who is a physicist who works at CERN, and who is the creator and maintainer of Handwiki. For example, Datamelt is his open source software for analyzing particle physics data, and Designed World is his book & youtube channel about spirituality.
To post a blog, you must pay $30. To maintain a user account (which can edit the wiki), you must pay $20/month. The more I look the more suspicious I become about the whole project.
Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of sites that have a snapshot of Wikipedia content. Presumably, this is so they can exploit the real interlinked content and then add their own spam on top for whatever SEO reasons.
How is “a wiki encyclopedia for collaborative editing of articles on computing, science, technology and general knowledge” different from / better than Wikipedia?
Wikipedia deletes a lot of stuff (both articles and their contents) for not being notable enough to a generalist audience (funny, since e.g. the math articles tend to be impenetrable). The articles here are longer but clearer, on fairly specialist topics.
Wikipedia deletes a lot of stuff because some random editor with pull decides to delete it. “Not being notable” is very subjective and (not that it would ever happy, of course) a very convenient way to disappear something you don’t like if you have the power to do so.
Under Featured Learning Resources section the first entry is “What does it take to build a UFO? by the History Channel”, and under the Recent Blogs I see the preview starts with “If you are reading this blog, you are a certifiable smart person…”
Not a good start.
All the Recent Blogs feel like spam, and the fact that they’re not getting pruned makes me think the whole site is SEO for the spam.
I wouldn’t say it’s spam. I’d say that all of the odd entries on the home page are promoting personal projects and interests of Sergei Chekanov, who is a physicist who works at CERN, and who is the creator and maintainer of Handwiki. For example, Datamelt is his open source software for analyzing particle physics data, and Designed World is his book & youtube channel about spirituality.
I’m talking about this Recent Blogs page. Right now, there are “blog posts” about online casinos, Plinko, and slot machines.
To post a blog, you must pay $30. To maintain a user account (which can edit the wiki), you must pay $20/month. The more I look the more suspicious I become about the whole project.
Yeah, I’ve seen a lot of sites that have a snapshot of Wikipedia content. Presumably, this is so they can exploit the real interlinked content and then add their own spam on top for whatever SEO reasons.
I wanted to make an account (to disable the pop up dictionary) which was a series of antipatterns:
I disable the JS instead.
After clicking on some links,
If nothing else, he has style. That’s an impressive response to having your article deleted.
How is “a wiki encyclopedia for collaborative editing of articles on computing, science, technology and general knowledge” different from / better than Wikipedia?
Wikipedia deletes a lot of stuff (both articles and their contents) for not being notable enough to a generalist audience (funny, since e.g. the math articles tend to be impenetrable). The articles here are longer but clearer, on fairly specialist topics.
Wikipedia deletes a lot of stuff because some random editor with pull decides to delete it. “Not being notable” is very subjective and (not that it would ever happy, of course) a very convenient way to disappear something you don’t like if you have the power to do so.