Knowledge Standards Foundation

Knowledge Standards Foundation
Abbreviation	KSF
Founded	2019
Founders	Larry Sanger (President), Tim Chambers (Treasurer), and others.
Type	not-for-profit
Legal status	501(c)(3)
Membership	Individuals
Website	encyclosphere.org

The Knowledge Standards Foundation (KSF) ^[1]^[2] is a nonprofit organization defining technical standards for the free exchange of encyclopedic information. The Knowledge Standards Foundation was founded in September 2019 by Wikipedia ex-founder Larry Sanger and a growing team.

KSF develops the standards and tools for the Encyclosphere project. Its mission is to help bring the encyclosphere [the universal network of encyclopedias] into being. Its headquarters are in Ohio. It achieved 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in 2020.

Projects[edit | edit source]

Beginning in 2020 the KSF team launched the following projects ^[3]:

EncycloReader - reader for encyclopedia content
EncycloSearch - search engine for searching online encyclopedia
EncycloShare - WordPress plugin to push articles to encyclosphere
Encyclosphere Chrome plugin - updates search results from Google and DDG with encyclosphere data
Zwinode - maintain and manage local zwi nodes.

Structure[edit | edit source]

Tim Chambers (board member & treasurer until 3/31/25)
Dr. Sergei V. Chekanov (software architect)
Manon Chiasson (marketing)
Christian Gribneau (Board secretary, W3C DID:WEB specification, DID:PSQR)
John Hampson (marketing)
Nancy Hildebrandt (Old Encyclopedia Digitization Project volunteer)
Henry Sanger (lead developer)
Dr. Larry Sanger (Board president)
Shelly Warren (developer)
Betty Wills (some video promotion, and limited social media)

Biographies of KSF team can be seen at ^[4]. All members of KSF except Larry work on a voluntary basis.

External links[edit | edit source]

Official website
www.facebook.com/knowledgestandards/ (Facebook page)
handwiki.org/wiki/Organization:Knowledge_Standards_Foundation at HandWiki (the origin of the first version of this article; CC-BY-SA-3.0 per [6])

References[edit | edit source]

^ About the Knowledge Standards Foundation [1] (retrieved Sep 2023)
^ Press Release: Wikipedia Co-Founder to Launch Discussion on Universal Network of Encyclopedias. Published August 24, 2021 [2] and [3] blog.
^ KSF projects [4] (retrieved Sep 2023)
^ KSF team [5] (retrieved Sep 2023)

[1] About the Knowledge Standards Foundation [1] (retrieved Sep 2023)

[2] Press Release: Wikipedia Co-Founder to Launch Discussion on Universal Network of Encyclopedias. Published August 24, 2021 [2] and [3] blog.

[3] KSF projects [4] (retrieved Sep 2023)

[4] KSF team [5] (retrieved Sep 2023)

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