HandWiki

The HandWiki is a internet Wiki-style encyclopedia for professional researchers in various branches of science and computer science.
As other Wiki type encyclopedias, HandWiki is designed for collaborative editing of articles.
One notable feature of HandWiki is that uses dedicated namespaces for each science topic, unlike the traditional
that uses the MediaWiki category concept for all articles. In addition to the categories preserved from , HandWiki has its own categories for local articles. According to the Handwiki designers, this can simplify organization of articles according to each particular topic. The HandWiki is designed using the MediaWiki software with additional extensions for including programming codes.
HandWiki has the following topics included in the dedicated namespaces: Mathematics, Computers, Analysis, Physics, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry.
HandWiki registration policy
Unlike , HandWiki does not allow anonymous editing.
The login to HandWiki is restricted to professional researchers with well-identifiable
qualifications. This is enforced by requiring at least one publication in peer-reviewed journals during registration, after providing ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID). This number
uniquely identifies scientific and other academic authors and contributors. As an alternative, a researcher can send an email to the
support team indicating his/her published research article.
According to the HandWiki documentation, who is in charge of removing articles depending on its content. The main idea behind this decision
in October 2019 as a research encyclopedia for data science.
The main motivation was to mitigate 's deletionism (also see the article deletionism and inclusionism in )
for scholarly content, thus acknowledging the problem with the notability for
wiki-style public resources that expose scientific knowledge (see also the article "Criticism of ").
In October 2019, the project is being carried out under the auspices of the members of the jWork portal.
The technical aspect of HandWiki was executed following the standard data analysis principles
Current statistics
In August 2020 HandWiki contained more than 250,000 scholarly articles, and became one of the largest online encyclopaedias of science and computing, exceeding the number of articles in for these topics Most articles, unless stated otherwise, have the standard
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
Many articles are imported from the current version of
, as indicated in the footnotes attached to such articles.
The articles are synchronized with , but giving preference to local edits.
The articles were reformatted by removing some standard templates, and all internal references
were redesigned to include articles from different HandWiki namespaces.
A fraction of articles was imported
In August 2020, about 15,200 scholarly articles permanently removed from in 2018-2019 have been restored by the Handwiki team . In 2018 and 2019, such articles did not pass the 's notability requirement.
HandWiki also includes ordinal research articles and articles from other public resources after importing them to the MediaWiki format.
HandWiki documentation advises<ref name=handwiki_faq/> to resubmit the HandWiki articles edited by professional researches back to , after such
articles are sufficiently scrutinized on HandWiki, and can be inserted to following the policy.

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