Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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Jude CEO and Founder of Golden here. Super excited to take this live. We are out to build the next place for canonical knowledge on the Internet. It has been a long-term mission for me to open up the knowledge coverage of billions of niche topics, companies, technologies and new concepts. Our aim is to cover in excess of 10bn topics in high detail over time. Although we all love Wikipedia, there have been various issues in the last 18 years, from constant deletion of data (product hunt was almost removed a few months back) to fact validation and automation of processes/work and UI/ease of user. We also believe there are many more features that users want, like a knowledge feed, keyboard commands, AI assisted feedback on editor contributions and tables that can automatically update.

We have set out to:

1. Cover all topics that exist over time rather than just notable topics.

2. Go into greater depth around a topic, from its timeline to videos and other useful resources surrounding the topic (eg learning videos, further reading, blog posts, Q&A, podcasts etc).

3. Support a larger population of people trying to learn about topics.

4. Make knowledge more accessible, richer and fun to read about.

5. Allow you to track topics of interest and be updated when new information is available on the subject.

6. Save time making the knowledge in the first place by using design, UI and AI to aid construction of the information. Especially by automating repetitive tasks and bring smart editor features.

Initially we have kicked off with various areas from cell and plant based meat to synthetic biology to cryptocurrency consensus mechanisms to artificial intelligence, microbiome, stem cell technology and startup topics. We expect these areas to increase in scope over time covering space, medical food, clean technology, robotics and many more exciting fields.

We are still early on our journey to delivering our vision and very much looking forward to product feedback and help with building up the content. Our team is hard at work making the product easier to use, we are up for taking every flow to its simplest form and removing every bug. If there is a feature you have been dying for on Wikipedia but could not get it, please also let us know. We look forward to seeing you in our community and covering topics especially under represented elsewhere.

I like the concept.

I'd like to know how they plan on addressing auditability of content - where it comes from, how it changes over time, etc.

Jude from Golden here. TLDR answer on this important question and I’m interested in the community ideas on this problem set:

1. High visual transparency and open edit logs eg golden.com/wiki/Morphogenetic_Engineering/activity

2. Using real profiles so we can prevent bots / multi accounts etc.

3. Cross checking SPO/fact triples in the prose against our structured data to validate information.

4. Cross checking against multiple sources

5. Using high resolution citations where we actually highlight the claim (please test our highlighting of a claim and citation tool to see this in action).

6. Having source trust ranked citation URLs.

7. Opening up primary sources eg articles of incorporation as evidence for claims.

8. Having a strong audit log of where information comes from.

9. Using a github style ‘issues’ rather than wiki talk in order to discuss content issues.

10. Giving UI affordances to argue out points and give evidence to claims made in these arguments.

We are still working on this UI / AI and general community to really dig into this core challenge.

I hope it will not be registration walled like Quora but more open like stackexchange websites or hn.

I refuse to participate to registration-ponzi-scheme.

What will the content licence be ?