Mission

Mission of the KMF:  To advance open knowledge by providing free, open-access platforms that empower content creators to publish and share scholarly and encyclopedic articles, software documentation, tutorials, and educational short movies and other resources. All content is made available under open-source licenses, such as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike and contributor-approved terms, supporting collaboration, accessibility, and the global exchange of information.

The KMF provides essential online infrastructure for free (open source) encyclopedic articles, general knowledge content, blogs, open-source educational and scientific software. Knowledge Media Foundation creates inclusive opportunities to diversify, decentralize and make more accessible educational articles and software programs.

The primary goal of KMF is to support the web infrastructure behind the organization’s core initiative: maintaining the HandWiki encyclopedia of knowledge, one of the largest free online resources for education and research.

HandWiki distinguishes itself from Wikipedia, supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, through a set of unique policies. These include:

• Alternative registration, which does not permit anonymous editing;
• Article acceptance, allowing original content such as tutorials and books authored by individuals with established credentials; and
• Dispute resolution practices designed to reflect a broad range of viewpoints.

The guiding principles for the encyclopedia’s content are aligned with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia", developed by Dr. Larry Sanger in collaboration with the Knowledge Standards Foundation (KSF).

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