wikszoci

wikszoci is an open, community-edited online encyclopedia and knowledge platform focused on sociology and related social sciences. It aims to document theories, empirical research, methods, data sets, policies, and sociocultural phenomena with transparent sourcing and collaborative editing. The platform blends wiki-style article creation with structured data features and discussion spaces to support interpretive debate and reproducibility.

Development began in 2014 by a cooperative of sociologists, information scientists, and educators seeking to provide a discipline-specific alternative to general encyclopedias. The project released a public beta in 2016, moved to a non-profit foundation in 2017, and reached full public operation by 2018. It uses open-source software and allows forks and contributions.

Core features include page-based editing with revision history, inline citations, discussion/talk pages, topic tagging, and structured data fields for variables, sample sizes, year, location, and methodology. It supports multilingual content, with translation workflows and language-specific policy. Content licensing is CC BY-SA 4.0; code under MIT.

Governance is community-driven; a Steering Council elected by editors governs major policy, with committees on verifiability, neutrality, and conflicts of interest. A formal dispute-resolution process exists, and vandalism is mitigated by monitoring tools and lightweight moderation to preserve quality while preserving openness.

Reception has been mixed: it is used by students and researchers for teaching and literature mapping, but faces critique over reliability of crowd-edited content. Proponents point to transparent sourcing and revision history; critics call for stronger expert review. wikszoci maintains an emphasis on reproducible references and data.