Quakerpedia FAQ
Below are answers to questions you might have about Quakerpedia.
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What is a wiki?
- A wiki is a website that can be edited by anyone (or almost anyone) who uses it, unlike most websites which can only be edited by the webmasters or administrators. Wikis therefore make it easy for large numbers of people to collaborate on creating a site, as has happened on Wikipedia, the largest wiki.
- Since Quakerpedia is a wiki, you have the power to add articles or edit existing ones, simply by clicking the "Edit this page" link in the sidebar. See editing for more instructions.
- For more on wikis, click here.
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Why not just use Wikipedia?
- Wikipedia certainly has many informative articles about Quakerism, as well as many other subjects.
- But there are several advantages of having a dedicated Quaker wiki, including:
- Quakerpedia can be much more comprehensive. Wikipedia only allows articles on well-known subjects: George Fox, the peace testimony, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting all have articles on Wikipedia, but most little-known Quaker topics do not. On Quakerpedia we have the ability to write articles on anything we feel is relevant to Friends, such as –
- a book
- a minute passed by your yearly meeting
- Fox's 101st epistle
- an obscure 17th-century Puritan minister with Quaker-like ideas
- how Friends have interpreted the Gospel of John
- an article in an academic journal
- information about meetings and churches that don't have websites
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