Compendium is a platform I built here on GitHub to serve as a direct, modern alternative to Wikipedia.
After working on Indiegamenews, I realized that the slow pace of publishing sometimes taking months to roll out a single article limited the impact I could make.
So I wanted to build something more dynamic and inclusive, especially for topics and communities that are often overlooked.
Wikipedia has some very major problems.
Primary sources are often discouraged in favor of their notorious notability rules, via secondary media coverage.
Nuanced or emerging topics can get suppressed because they lack traditional third-party coverage, and the lines between editorializing and summarizing become blurred.
By color-coding sources based on their proximity to the subject, we mitigate these aforementioned problems. This adds transparency to how knowledge is constructed without excluding large amounts of information.
by lowering the barrier for underrepresented subjects that are ignored due to this threshold Compendium attempts to be a much more modernized academic resource that more people will be able to fully utilize.
When writing articles for Compendium there are things to be mindful of. you should always maintain a neutral tone and lean away from opinionated content. You will also have to use the custom tagging
This is normal text in white. It is the fundamental tag your articles will be built around.
<red-flag> the red-flag tag should be used to ask for verification of information, or to inform the reader that information may be outdated or inaccurate, or require clarification.</red-flag>
<potential-illegality> the potential-illegality tag should only ever be used to warn against severe misconduct so that other people may take action and prevent harm, for example illegal explicit activities, or botnetting behaviours.</potential-illegality>
these can be wrapped around any of the tags.
Below you can see that all references are generated and organized for you: