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About WWKB
 The World-Wide Knowledge Base is an attempt to provide a new way of organizing broad categories of information and allowing users to quickly find appropriate answers to their questions without having to wade through web page after web page or newsgroup after newsgroup to find their answers. It accomplishes this through a complex hierarchy of categories, article ratings, topic-specific communities, and powerful search features.

Features
  • In depth category hierarchy to organize information
  • Category specific chat and forum communities
  • Extensive rating system designed to target quality content
  • Local and distributed content allowing for easy sharing of information
  • Powerful and easy to use search system to narrow queries to the answers you're seeking
  • Authoring tools to allow anyone to add private or public content
  • Ability to privately or publicly annotate existing articles to add notes, additional information, correct errors, etc.
  • Localization of client applications to as many languages as possible
  • A powerful plugin system that will allow almost any type of tool to be integrated into the wwkb system.
  • Translation tools to assist multi-lingual contributors in translating articles to other languages.
  • Extensive import facilities to incorporate existing information from web sites, newsgroups, MSDN, help files, and other sources
  • Ability to group access by user or groups of users.
  • Support for secure, encrypted communications.
Status
WWKB is currently in the early stages of design and development. Depending on the contributions of others, development of a beta system could come as quickly as May, 2004 or as long as a January of 2005.




Imagine if you will...
If you're a programmer, imagine being able to select content from obscure web pages, usenet newsgroups, MSDN. Make annotations to existing works. Apply keywords that make sense to you, not the author, and be able to find that information 6 months or a year later because it's stored in a way you can find it.

If you're a chemist, imagine having references to molecular characteristics along with a rotatable 3-D models and other reference material. If you're a physicist imagine having access to a complete reference of articles, formula, completely integrated with mathematical tools. If you're a chef, imagine having access to millions of recipes, rated by people who have used them, and easily generate your shopping list with the same tool.

The dream of WWKB is to be adaptable to the needs of the user. Whatever your field, tools can be integrated to allow you to better utilize the information available. A tool that really can be "all things to all people."

That's the dream. If you share it...

How can you help?
 WWKB is going to be a fairly large project. It will consist of server apps, web services, an asynchronous pluggable protocol, a windows form client, and a web form client, among others. The goal is for the system to run under .NET as well as any .NET compatible systems, including Mono (for Linux) and the Shared Source Common Library Infrastructure (SSCLI) (for BSD and Mac OS X). I need developers, particularly people with experience in using the SSCLI under BSD and Mac OS X, and people with experience writing socket servers and clients. But I also need programmers with broader skills to help develop other aspects of the system. If you know C# and you have database development experience, you can contribute as a programmer.
Once a usable system is in place, we could use people to start preparing content for the system. That pretty much means anyone in any field who can write. If you're interested, please go to the SourceForge page and sign up.

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