Projects
Please see the Encyclosphere Project Wiki project page as an example.
| Project name | Lead developer(s) | Description | Status* | Status last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EncycloReader.org | Sergei Chekanov | Website with a configurable search engine of encyclopedias and an article reader, running from a large database of free encyclopedias (an aggregator). This specialized aggregator, run by KSF, is a also a production engine for most ZWI files from 30 encyclopedias. See encycloreader.org. | Maintenance | 2024-1-19 |
| EncycloSearch.org | Henry Sanger | Another Encyclosphere search engine/reader, containing both free (open content) and proprietary (but free-to-read) encyclopedias among the search engine results. See encyclosearch.org | Maintenance | 2024-1-25 |
| ZWIBook | Larry Sanger | Flash drives with Project Gutenberg books, in ZWI format, and reader software; as a thank-you gift to donors | Development | 2024-07-25 |
| EncycloShare | Shelly Warren | WordPress plugin, letting bloggers push signed articles to an aggregator in the Encyclosphere. | Maintenance | 2024-1-25 |
| ZWINode | Sergei Chekanov | A single genera node acting as aggregator and editor of articles for Encyclosphere. Can be installed from [1] | Active development | 2024-1-19 |
| EncycloEngine | Henry Sanger | Similar to ZWINode, OSS software that runs EncycloSearch; acts as aggregator, search engine, and reader. | Active development | 2024-1-25 |
| Old Encyclopedia Digitization Project (OEDP) | Larry Sanger | Generates encyclopedia (ZWI format) files from old public domain encyclopedias. Results are displayed on Oldpedia.org. | Maintenance | 2024-1-25 |
| Minifeed | Dan | Decentralized microblogging platform based on WordPress [2] | 2022 | |
| ZWIMaker | Sergei Chekanov | Extensions to create ZWI from Mediawiki and DokuWiki. Can be installed from [3] | Maintenance | 2024-1-19 |
| ZWIBuilder | Sergei Chekanov | A command-line tool based on Python to create ZWI files from encyclopedia GIT Repo | Maintenance | 2024-1-19 |
| ZWINetwork | Sergei Chekanov | A command-line tool based on Python to download and clone ZWI files in the network. Also used by ZWINode | Maintenance | 2024-1-19 |
| Encyclopedia Listing | Tim Chambers | Database of websites that we are aware of. As of 2024-02-26 there were 820 entries. [4] | Maintenance | 2024-1-22 |
| Encyclone | Sergei Chekanov | Search engine with P2P feature for encyclopedic articles [5] | Maintenance | 2024-1-19 |
| EncycloCrawler | Henry Sanger | Crawls encyclopedias, generating a database of ZWI files. | ||
| Encyclosphere Chrome Extension | Henry Sanger | This extension injects results from the Encyclosphere into search engine pages. [6] | ||
| Encyclopedia Grading Project | John Hampson | Grading quality of public domain encyclopedias from archive.org, Google Books, etc. To be later used for article extraction in OEDP | Maintenance | 2023-12-14 |
| Wikipedia Deathrow | Louis | Articles that are in the Wikipedia's deletion queue; many deserve to be deleted, but some are actually OK, just on obscure topics. | Maintenance | 2024-02-16 |
Status types should include:
- Active development (used when significant development work has been done in the last month)
- Maintenance (ongoing software or other maintenance, steady attention as necessary, but no significant work done in the last month)
- Quiescent (made available, but "hidden" from easy public access)
- Archived (no longer available publicly)