WISE Newsletter, Vol.1, No.7 (January 14, 2013) (back to home page)
The WISE online Worldwide Resource Center (WRC) (Home page of WRC) was launched in December, 2012, and is an independent project initiated by the World Institute for Scientific Exploration (WISE). The WRC is a gigantic "wiki" database, directory, encyclopedia, digital library, and much more. In fact, it is also a publishing platform, and is being used to publish this issue, and subsequent issues, of the WISE Newsletter. The WRC is designed to be a comprehensive resource for all topics and subjects, worldwide, related to scientific anomalies, unexplained phenomena, alternative and traditional medicine, new energy concepts, as well as, legends and unsolved mysteries in science, technology, history and many other fields of knowledge.
The WRC was originally conceived to be just an online wiki-encyclopedia , similar to Wikipedia, and we have been giving you updates of progress on this aspect of the Resource Center. But we realized that the wiki-resource we were preparing could be much more than just an encyclopedia, and could be made into a much more valuable resource for anomalies researchers worldwide.
So we broadened the concept to be a “Resource Center,” and to provide a single source to which people worldwide could turn for information on any person, organization, periodical, or subject related to anomalies, but also for digitized books and periodicals, for comprehensive bibliographies, for a platform to publish newsletters of the WISE branches and affiliated organizations worldwide, for blogging, and much more. In fact, this issue of the WISE Newsletter is coming to you via the WRC wiki, although it will also be available on the WISE website, as well.
The “Wiki” aspect of the WRC, however, is fully retained and there are thousands of pages for people, organizations, periodicals, and subjects which you can easily search for using the search box in the upper right corner of every page. There are also pages for each of the 235 countries and territories of the world, which cover all of the above anomalies subjects and related activities taking place in those countries and territories, as well as, in the states and provinces of the US and Canada. You can search for countries, states, and provinces using the search box in the upper right.
Moreover, as a “Wiki”, any registered person is able to create a new page on any subject, edit existing pages, correct inaccuracies, add new information, make comments, attach documents or photos, and do many other things to add valuable content. All such additions are as easy as working with Word documents, and do not require any "mark-up" symbols, as most wikis, including Wikipedia require. All you have to do is click on the “Edit this page” button, type what you want, and click on "save" button. But before you are able to do that, you have to register, and then you should review the few FAQs as well, since they cover the basics in creating and editing pages and searching.
Once you have registered, you can start immediately creating pages or adding information to existing pages on any subjects you are interested in related to scientific anomalies, unexplained phenomena, alternative or traditional medicine, alternative energy, legends, and unsolved mysteries of all kinds. You can also create a page for yourself and put up your bio, resume, or CV, and tell everyone all about you research projects, accomplishments, and other aspects of your life. Or you can create pages for any other person, organization, periodical, event, or subject, as long as it relates in some way to the above topics.
Please remember that as a "wiki", this is a huge work in progress, and we have not yet had the time to add information to all of the thousands of pages we have created. However, our researchers will continue adding as much information, bibliographies, and links to other sources as possible. Also in the case of pages for individual people, we have not added any information yet, because we wanted to give everyone a chance to put in whatever information they wanted about themselves first, before people all over the internet start adding information. Through your help we all can make this a reference source of value to researchers worldwide.
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