Knowledge Standards Foundation

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.

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

## Contents

* 1 Projects
* 2 Structure
* 3 External links
* 4 References

## 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]

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)