Thread by @lsanger

@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales Hey @elonmusk, I am “the other” co-founder of Wikipedia. The ex-founder, I like to say. I actually pushed and led the idea of a wiki encyclopedia in the project’s seminal first year. Read what I wrote about why neutrality is so important here: larrysanger.org/2022/03/why-ne…

@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales Wikipedia is another example of oppressive Internet centralization. The solution is to build on a new, open standard for encyclopedias: the ZWI file format and the #encyclosphere. See EncycloReader.org and EncycloSearch.org aim to bring together all the encyclopedias.

@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales The files, the file format, the network, the software—it’s all free. Please ask your many followers to support the 501(c)(3) Knowledge Standards Foundation: mightycause.com/organization/K…

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@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales @ks_found We have exciting things in the works. My son (an awesome dev) has built a Chromium plugin that appends encyclosphere search results to Goo and DDG, fetches the articles via WebTorrent, and seeds articles for other users in idle tabs. Truly decentralized.

Launching this month.

@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales @ks_found We have a $100K matching grant this year from FUTO.org (which I’m sure is on your radar; if not, it should be).

We’re making a Yacy-powered encyclopedia meta-search engine.

@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales @ks_found We’re bringing public domain encyclopedias into the encyclosphere, not just as PDFs—we’re doing the work of extracting individual articles and making them into ZWI files anybody can use.

We’ll have millions of articles from dozens (100s?) of encyclopedias within a few months.

@elonmusk @stillgray @jimmy_wales @ks_found Unlike the Wikimedia Foundation, we actually need donations, to build stuff that doesn’t exist yet, tech that liberates and preserves uncensorable knowledge for future generations.

BTW this includes a WordPress plugin that allows people to push articles to the encyclosphere…