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 Encyclopedia 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 the printing press to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Unlike Wikipedia the Marteau Encyclopaedia of the Early Modern Period will be written by scholars and taste of the academic world though it will aim at bringing both realms, the world of the world wide web and scientific research, together.

Content of the Wiki-database will be – as in our sister project – free to be quoted and to be used by anyone. Our articles will not be signed by authors. The version histories will, however, allow our readers to connect every single edit with the hand of the author who wrote here.

All who will join the project will write under their real names and offer personal pages which will allow to locate them at the 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 will focus on contacting authors and on offering them the technical assistance they want – yet they will not form a conventional board of editors deciding on submitted work. 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 a pleasure of interaction and free exchange should come with this project that would be worth all our efforts.