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Anarchopedia is a knowledge portal and online anarchist community. The project aims to build a multilingual encyclopedia, written cooperatively on the Internet, with a special focus on Anarchism and anarchist topics. This project is organized according to the means of unanimity, consensus, voluntarism, individual responsibility, and is founded upon the anarchist principles of direct democracy and autonomy. It is a GFDL corpus access provider

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Operation of Anarchopedia

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An anarchistic encyclopaedia

Anarchopedia is an anarchistic encyclopaedia in the political sense of the term : its operation is founded on the autonomy and the self-management of Anarchopedians, and not on the authority (of some).

In this sense, it illustrates the famous saying of Pierre Joseph Proudhon : “Anarchy, it is the order, without the authority” (Confessions of a revolutionist).

On the other hand, Anarchopedia is the opposite of an “anarchy” within the meaning of a community struck by a state of disorder. Order is ensured by the individuals associated on anarchopedia.

Anarchopedians do not give orders to other anarchopedians. Mandates and tasks can be assigned to individuals during General Assemblies.

Anarchopedia and collective regulation

Why doesn't Anarchopedia break down ?

By his open organization and because of the absence of holders of authority, Anarchopedia can appear like a very fragile project, ready to be broken down under the attacks of vandals, or with being submerged by contributions in disaccord with a general consensus. Mr Anarchopedia undergoes, from time to time, the effect of individuals who seek to degrade his contents, to even erase its pages. As for the them, they always showed less perseverance or persistence than Anarchopedians, so it is unlikely that they would be able to damage the project permanently.

On a final note, a report is essential: there are more Net surfers wishing to work for the interest of the realization of Anarchopedia, than people who seek to harm it.

Why take part in Anarchopedia?

With the first access, to devote time to Anarchopedia may not appear a particularly attractive activity. It is necessary:

• to experiment and learn the operating mode of wiki and anarchopedia,
• to show humility by accepting that its texts are modified by other participants,
• to accept that others can have another approach to a question that oneself,
• to respect radically different or opposite opinions which are often debated, under the Anarchist Points of view.
• to devote time to thankless tasks like the correction of the spelling mistakes or the errors of working.

Criticisms

The growing success of Anarchopedia led a great number of people to formulate a critical opinion on the reliability of the information presented in this encyclopaedia. The statute of Anarchopedia as a source of reference remains a subject of controversy. The principal objections are as follows:

• the absence of filtering of the editors according to their competences, which involves the risk of inaccuracies, and more generally the absence of a reading panel guaranteeing the quality of the articles,

• Such filtering, however, can create a false sense of security; readers will trust reviewers rather than use their own best judgement.

• the heterogeneity of the quality of the articles,
• the preference for the consensus of the editors after a reasoned debate, rather than for the argument of authority,
• anarchistic points of view, considered as an illusion or a political or cultural prejudice,
• the risk to seek the anarchistic consensus rather than the anarchistic truth, and to support the relativism in the name of the anarchistic Point of view, even if it means to tolerate unfounded speeches on subjects concerned with personal philosophy, or propaganda for groups for example,
• the anonymity of the majority of the contributors,
• the vandalism, supported by the open nature of wiki.
• the risk to see groupings using Anarchopedia to make propaganda, or many geniuses autoclaimed to disseminate eccentric information,
• the systematic existence of skew in spite of the concern from the anarchistic point of view,
• apparent lack of responsibility and references compared with other encyclopaedias,
• skepticism on the capacity of Anarchopedia, considering its operation based on a collective regulation, to improve quality of the articles, even the prediction of an inescapable walk towards the mediocrity,
• a great number of articles are appeared as a compilation of rough information, without the effort of synthesis which should characterize an encyclopaedic text,
• the contents of Anarchopedia are closely related to the centers of interest of its contributors, from where lacks in the panorama of knowledge.

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History

Antecedents

The Anarchopedia project falls under a will to continue with “modern” means (Internet and wiki), the project of collection and organization of the knowledge on anarchism. The idea to gather the whole of knowledge on anarchism will be initiated by Sebastien Faure in the anarchistic encyclopaedia (1927), or by maitron in its works of history on the anarchists, and various anarchistic authors will gather documents or writings allowing a posteriori to carry out this base of knowledge on anarchism.

With the development of the Internet, several people developed knowledge bases on anarchism by Internet (bibliotecs, writings, daily bleed, etc).

Origin of the project

Wikipedia will be another knowledge base under development, they will be one of the bases and inspirer of this project.

Anarchopedia project

Milos Rancic launched the Anarchopedia project (also as Anarchapedia) in September 2004, with multiple languages, differing from wikipedia in that every user is granted sysop status; thus launching a direct experiment of anarchy.

Anarchopedia started in "September 2004", the anglophone wiki in November 2004, and several other projects carried out thereafter.

Similar projects

• A parallel project, just in french language, and without sysop for all, was launched in november 2004 on zaup.org. that project merged with the anarchopedia project on 12 March 2005.

• A [Indonesian parallel project], just in the Indonesian language, was launched ??? on [???]. that project merged with the anarchopedia project on 17 September 2005.

• A [polish parallel project], just in the polish language, was launched in ???? on ????. that project merged with the anarchopedia project on 28 August 2005.

• A parallel project, just in danish language, was launched at august 11 th in 2005 on anarko.dk. that project merged with the anarchopedia project on 19 March 2006.

Other forms of diffusion of Anarchopedia

CD ? DVD ? P2P ? Papers ?

advance of Anarchopedia

Outstanding dates of Anarchopedia

Principal indicators of the advance of Anarchopedia

to be made, with the statistics…

Draft reports

See also

In addition to this article, you can read some of the articles which intend describe individual aspects of Anarchopedia:

• Anarchopedia, itself
• Anarchopedia, purpose
• Anarchopedia, we
• Anarchopedia, policy
• direct democracy
• sysops
• point of view (POV)
• large public wiki
• factions

See also: Anarchopedia projects | how to help Anarchopedia