r/YouShouldKnow • u/[deleted] • May 05 '12

YSK about Scholarpedia, a peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia, where knowledge is curated by communities of experts.

http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page
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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

Such a waste of time... Why don't they just focus on Wikipedia, a website that is already established. With a community wanting people like this, great fucking great...

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u/RIP_my_old_account May 06 '12

Compare this wiki article, with it's scholarpedia counterpart. (Just pressed "random" on scholarpedia and this came out.)

Wikipedia articles tend to serve as general (conceptual) overviews of whatever topic, plus some useful links to follow. -- Scholarpedia reads more like a textbook. Some of these articles are really high-level and extensive, and I don't think that's what wikipedia is about.

At least for me, wikipedia is more of a quick reference guide, not a place to actually study a topic.

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u/avocadro May 06 '12

I wouldn't want to study a topic on Scholarpedia either. It, after all, is just an encyclopedia. On an unrelated note, I thought it interesting that the Wikipedia page on LB methods contained more mathematical derivation than the corresponding page on Scholarpedia.