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Wikipedia:
  • notability guidelines too stringent
  • Encyclopedic content requirements too stringent, we need tutorials
  • contributors get no clear indication of their contribution
  • your changes can be reverted at any time losing you hours of work
Stack Exchange: can't write a book/have table of contents, only Q&A
Other personal knowledge bases (Obsidian, static site generators, etc.), blogs, PDFs:
  • no way to merge brains of multiple users
  • some of them are not focused on publishing, only personal/internal company usage
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The topics feature allows you to find the best version of a subject written by other users user
. Live demo: derivative.
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Screenshot of Ciro Santilli's Monero wallet with 1000 Monero in it just after the donation
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Figure 2.
Still of the reaction video after finding out about the big donation around about midnight
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It's a role given to me by the Internet people
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The ultimate goal: create an university:
The technical goal:
Get university students to write what they learn. All university material should be amazing and free!
The how:
Create the ultimate personal knowledge base software with multi-user mind-melding features.
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Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
We have two killer features:
  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
    • a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
  2. local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
    This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
    Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
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  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact