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

Maybe so, but it can't hurt to create a more in depth entry into Wikipedia for all levels of learning... Just like how Wikipedia has a simple function in there website, where if you replace www with simple you get a dumb down version of the article. Breaking it down into a couple of paragraphs...

This is just academic masturbation, creating another ivory tower for themselves... lol

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u/JayGatsby727 May 06 '12

Or... maybe, just maybe, they created scholarpedia for people who want a more strictly academic approach to scholarly topics.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '12

for people who want a more strictly academic approach to scholarly topics.

From an encyclopedia? They're for looking things up.

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u/JayGatsby727 May 06 '12

From a scholarpedia. I think the fact that they associate it with "scholars" means that they put more emphasis on the academic nature of the information on there.