Taskmaster4450 started a project of LeoGlossary. The idea is creating a Wikipedia on a blockchain. He started with crypto and finance definitions.
At the moment there is:
- LeoGlossary: Main Menu - Crypto and finance definitions
- LeoGlossary: Leofinance - Menu Page - Definitions for LeoFinance projects
- LeoGlossary: List of Largest Asset Management Firms - Top 20 Asset Management Firms
- LeoGlossary: List Of Fed Chairs - list of the chairs of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
- LeoGlossary: List of Presidents of World Bank Group
- LeoGlossary: SplinterGlossary - terms and definitions for Splinterlands
To learn more about the project from Taskmaster4450 himself you can read his post Building Wikipedia On Hive or listen to him talk about it on Community Token Talk with Theycallmedan, Starkerz.
Now is this a revolutionary idea that was never thought about before? No. From my small knowledge about all the blockchains out there there were several. One that was pointed out was Everipedia. It started as a private company then raised money from angel investors and in the end migrated to a EOS blockchain and got $30 million in funding headed by Galaxy Digital's EOS.io Ecosystem Fund. And it actually looks fine, but from what i managed to find out (and for a 30 million company not that much) it is centralized and adding things is limited and could be censored.
What it does not have is a community writing content about all and everything all day every day. Now community just has to start using it.
LeoGlossary is just a proof of concept of what could be done. From my understanding Khal liked the idea and is planning to implement it into social part of LeoFinance. Probably something like account tagging in Peakd, when you start to type the username you get suggestions of names for users. So if you start to type "blockchain" you would get a suggestion with the code to link it to LeoGlossary. I do feel that should be opensource and be used by all frontends. I have no idea how hard or easy would implementation of that would be, but looks like it is in the Sooneverse.
Beauty of Hive is that no one can stop you to do this, but if we want to do it on a large scale and to be usable we do need some kind of structure to make it easier for the programmers.
Why use it?
Well my first thought was, using this in posts will help ranking those definitions high on search engines. Ranking it high on search engines will bring more eyes to the Leofinance and Hive. That means, new accounts and users.
More eyes on those pages can also be beneficial for everyone that has some Leo powered up. In the sooneverse option to share ad revenue from leofinance should be implemented.
I did try to implement it in 3 of my latest posts, LeoFinance Mobile Test, Is Hive a Security? and "Bring your fam to Leo" week and in the current format it does add a bit of time into post writing. There are few options to make it easier until something better is made. One is probably making a list of definitions you are using the most, second is maybe traying to use PeakD snippets.
Did you know about the project? Started using it in your posts?
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Thanks for the promotion of the project. Really trying to build Investopedia on Leofinance more than Wikipedia. We are focused in that regard.
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I like the idea, and i do think it could do great things for search engine ranking. But it does need a support from some programmers to make it easier to use :)
where would be the best to add suggestions for new definitions? i got few words while writing. For example angel investors. think it would also help you with "new" definitions discovery.
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We added a new Hive Glossary that should help people writing Hive related content.
It is expanding in a nice way.
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