<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>just found on the web a free peer reviewed encyclopedia, might be interesting to have a look at it.</DIV><DIV>www.scholarpedia.org</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><B>Features</B>:</SPAN></DIV><DIV>> runs under MediaWiki, created Feb 2006</DIV><DIV>> define :</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>+ Authorship policy (invited or elected by public)</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>+ Curatorship</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>+ Scholar index </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>best,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Vincent.</DIV><DIV>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;">Welcome to </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;"><B><I>Scholarpedia</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;">, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">Scholarpedia feels and looks like </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.wikipedia.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#4267B6">Wikipedia</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program - </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#4267B6">MediaWiki</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;">. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by clicking on the </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;"><I>edit this article</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;"> link.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways:</SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">Each article is written by an expert (invited or </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:Election"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1231B2">elected</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> by the public).</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">Each article is anonymously peer reviewed to ensure accurate and reliable information.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">Each article has a curator - typically its author -- who is responsible for its content.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;">Any modification of the article needs to be approved by the curator before it appears in the final, </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;"><I>approved</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px; line-height: normal;"> version.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">Herein also lies the greatest differences between Scholarpedia and traditional print media: while the initial authorship and review processes are similar to a print journal, articles in Scholarpedia are not frozen and outdated, but dynamic, subject to an ongoing process of improvement moderated by their curators. This allows Scholarpedia to be up-to-date, yet maintain the highest quality of content.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>