Why Everipedia Exists and Why I Enjoy Contributing to it: A Call to Action

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Everipedia launched in 2015 with the idea of reimagining how the encyclopedia works. As Paul Graham <a href="http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html" target="_blank">said</a> in his newsletter over 10 years ago, “There is room to do to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica,” and he is right more than ever. Before in the print era, we were constrained by the binding of books in what we could put in an encyclopedia. In the information age, why would we keep limiting ourselves when we have the capacity to host millions upon millions of pages? And with new notable concepts and <a href="https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Evolution_of_an_idea/" target="_blank">memes</a> (pertaining to the evolution of the idea) rising to the forefront daily, we will have to sooner rather than later. If Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia for traditional knowledge, then Everipedia is the online encyclopedia for up-and-coming topics in culture.