Talk:Marteaupedia

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The Marteau Encyclopaedia of the Early Modern Period will turn out to be a far reaching project. The success of Wikipedia, the free--- dictionary tempted us to risk this site as sister project with a special focus on the Early Modern period – roughly the centuries from the invention of printing to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Unlike Wikipedia the Marteau Encyclopaedia of the Early Modern Period, is supposed to be written by scholars and to obey to the rules of academic discourse though with the aim to bridge the realms of academic research and the wider interest this will meet on the web.

Content of the Wiki-interface will be – as in Wikipedia – free to be quoted and to be used by anyone. Our articles will not be signed by authors. Their version histories will, however, allow you to connect every single edit with him or her who clicked the edit link to add to the article.

All joining the project will write under their real names and offer user pages which will locate them at the academic institutions they are associated with or as private individuals who publish in the field. Contributors will be invited to list articles they wrote within and outside the project on their user pages. The editors behind the project will focus on contacting potential authors and on offering technical assistance – they will not form a board of editors deciding on work submitted to them. The process of peer reviewing will be part of the project itself – part of the exchange on the discussion pages linked to our articles.

Contact us if you are writing your PhD on a topic in our scope. We will be just as well the medium for librarians using our resources and for scientists publishing on the period 1450-1800. We will try our best to keep the platform attractive and to initiate communication across the borders of distant disciplines. If certain a pleasure of interaction and free exchange should come with this project that would be worth all the work flowing into this project.