These are websites that offer somewhat overlapping services, many of which served inspirations, and why we think something different is needed to achieve our goals.

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Notably, OurBigBook is the result of Ciro Santilli's experiences with:

OurBigBook could be seen as a cross between those three website.

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Quick mentions:

handwiki.org/wiki/HandWiki:About: technically the same as Wikipedia, but with more aligned moderation policies
ecotext.co/ similar goals. Their website seems quite broken now though as of 2021, can't see text properly. Crunchbase entry: www.crunchbase.com/organization/ecotext says they are from Durham, New Hampshire, United States. Cannot see how to publish, curated material only? Twitter: twitter.com/ecotextinc?lang=en One of the founders: twitter.com/BigNel_21 | www.linkedin.com/in/ecotextnelsonthomas/. Their LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ecotext/people/
fiveable.me/ bad: separates students and teachers, as a student I don't see where to create my content. Good: focus on teaching university level stuff to people outside of university via Advanced Placement. Bad: Lots of video content. Bad: Can't see the issue tracker attached to each page.
LessWrong: their website system does have some similar feature sets to what we want. Reputation, Q&A sections, links between articles most likely, sort by upvote everywhere.
crowdpub.org collaborative writing website, somehow goes to paragraph level, TODO how they reconcile different authors? Closed beta as of writing, so hard to be sure. From quick presentation on beta website, appears to attempt to share revenue to authors proportionally to the size of their contribution. Some blockchain-based reputation. Meh.
TODO migrate all from: github.com/booktree/booktree/blob/master/alternatives.md
Knowunity: knowunity.co.uk/. Same goal of sharing lecture notes. PDF-upload based, so fundamentally limited. Focused on university entry exams only. Apparently centralized content review before it gets published. Appears to have a creator payment system, TODO who pays? Ads to creators? Or do content consumers pay? Made in Germany.
studynotes.ie/. Admin approval on everything. No ToC. Fixed tag list for university entry exams topics.
mindstone.com: there appears to be no sharing focus? File upload basesd? Not sure.
EverybodyWiki

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Conceptual:

The Final Encyclopedia: science fiction concept, but the name was reused by Paul Allen in a research project
second brain
collective intelligence

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