Show HN: Encycla, Git-based collaborative encyclopedia
encycla.comMe and my cofounder Chris have been quietly working on Encycla for a while now. Previously, I started LocalWiki[1] and DavisWiki[2]. What I couldn't stop thinking about was: is Wikipedia really "it" in terms of web-wide knowledge sharing?
There's been lots of note-taking apps and personal knowledge sharing tools developed in the past few years. But there's a big difference between working with people you already know and collaborating with anyone on the internet.
Right now, if you're interested in, say DIY air purifiers[3], you could throw up a document or webpage. But there's no good way for people you don't already know to work on it, to make it their own. If you're writing software, the answer is obvious: publish a Git repository on GitHub/GitLab.
With Encycla, we're building a sort of "GitHub for knowledge": a place where you can create simple, topical webpages that others can fork and asynchronously push & pull changes from (without knowing about Git or anything technical).
On the backend, every page on Encycla is a git repository containing Markdown that you can clone, edit independently of the Encycla website, push to other services (such as GitHub, GitLab), etc.
> Encycla is a git repository containing Markdown that you can clone, edit independently of the Encycla website, push to other services
Can I also clone, edit, and then push the changes back to Encycla?
I can answer that myself now: Yes, using the web login credentials it is perfectly possible to edit locally and push the changes. Markdown doesn't behave quite as expected, though.
Just created an account, time to share knowledge!