Concisia

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This is a **proposal for a new** Wikimedia sister project.
Concisia
Status of the proposal
Status	rejected
Reason	no interest. Pecopteris (talk) 14:47, 19 August 2023 (UTC) [reply ]
Details of the proposal
Project description	A collection of items and relationships between items, each with a short description.
Technical requirements
New features to require	This would probably require many new features.
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The project I would like to propose is a general encyclopedia just like Wikipedia but with a big focus on conciseness. It is different from other Wikipedia projects as it uses a very dynamic frontend.

Its main properties are:

Knowledge is represented in a graph. Subjects of knowledge are the nodes; relations between subjects are the edges
Users can annotate nodes and edges, i.e. write text to explain/describe the subject or relation. In this way relations get to be equally important as subjects.
An annotation is only editable by a single person. There can be multiple annotations per node/edge however, that can be browsed.
An annotation is limited in length (e.g. 100 words). This promotes concise texts.
Annotations can be rated. This ensures that good and concise annotations get promoted.
Nodes and edges get to be weighted by an algorithm based on the number of annotations and view count.

Please find a complete description at this Blog. It:

explains the basic thoughts behind the idea
shows use cases with images
shows how Concisia can be used to show and create Wikidata data (in section 'Semantic Web').

(I am new to editing Wiki pages, so I decided to just link to the blog. Please let me know if this is inappropriate.)