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| Status: | Active |
| Language: | English |
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| Wiki engine: | MediaWiki |
| Wiki license: | Public Domain / Copysate"Public Domain / Copysate" is not in the list (Custom license, Attribution to contributing authors, Copyright to contributing authors, Site retains copyright, WTFPL, Licence Art Libre, Open Content License, Apache License, BSD Documentation License, FreeBSD Documentation License, ...) of allowed values for the "Wiki license" property. |
| Main topic: | Philosophy |
Lumeniki uses a research methodology known as Lumenism. As of 30th July there is only one editor, Lumenos, which means that the research topics are Lumenos' interests including:
- Philosophy:
- Value theory: Lumenos invented consequism to define benefit and evaluate moral systems, societies, or gods, according to their benevolence and to distinguish this sort of evaluation from moralistic fallacy.
- Lumism describes Lumenos most undeniable perceptions and questions. From this framework is built Lumenosity (an eclectic religion incorporating elements of intelligent design, liberal Christianity, Shamanism, etc) and Lumentialism (an atheistic philosophy similar to existentialism).
- Home economics:
- Lumenos interviews an engineer who has a new method for backyard solar electricity generation using a converted steam engine.
- Converting waste into food. Ummm yummy!
- A guide to the cheapest mp3 players.
- A guide to booting a normal Windows installation as a virtual machine.
Question: Why do we need yet another wiki?
Lumeniki may be the only wiki with these qualities:
- Wikiforum
- Copysate license. This avoids many of the totalitarian requirements of default intellectual property rights but entitles developers to a royalty on any profits made by anyone else, using their work. (Some wikis may allow custom licenses for articles, however. Wikinfo might. I might move some or all the content there.)
- Lumeniki's policies are not completely decided but Lumenos sees a number of ways to improve on Wikipedia's policies.
- Wikipedia does not officially consider content to be notable or reliable if it is "original research" or information from self-published sources. I think this creates a bias towards commercial content and runs contrary to the very thing that makes Wikipedia good; that it has info that is timely and less censored, than what is usually found in encyclopedias that are supposed to highly accurate. I think self-publishing is the future of publishing and we need ways to evaluate self-published sources rather than excluding them completely.
- For reliablity Lumeniki instead aims to use the articles to evaluate sources and to evaluate Lumeniki's own editors.
- For notablity Lumeniki suggests a more consensus based approach to establish notability. Some think Wikipedia claims to be about consensus, but this is only consensus as to what "reliable" sources claim.