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The Psychology Wiki is a Wikia project, meaning that it is hosted by Wikia Inc., which was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. You can think of the project as a daughter of the wikipedia site.
The Psychology Wiki's mission is to create an online resource placing the entire body of psychology knowledge in the hands of its users, be they academics, practitioners or users of psychology services. It is intended to be a meta-textbook, with full academic referencing and extensive cross linking between different subject areas.
The Psychology Wiki differs from Wikipedia psychology articles in that:
- 1) It is intended to contain all of the discipline of psychology, like a giant meta-textbook, rather than an Encyclopedia.
- 2) It will therefore go into much greater technical detail than one would have in an encyclopedia. It will have full academic referencing.
- 3) It will have Personal Experiences relating to psychology issues on seperate user pages, protected by admins, allowing POV to be expressed on these pages only. The rest of the wiki is NPOV, but expression of personal experience is nessesary and desireable on our wiki.
- 4) It will have course content pages from academic and clinical courses with links to internal wiki articles.
- 5) It will be a place for researchers to discuss latest papers etc...
- 6) As the site will mainly be of interest to people who study or work in psychology, we expect that the majority of our contributors will be psychologists by training. Of our current contributors, approximately 80% are psychologists. This means that the community works very differently from Wikipedia, due to a much greater level of expertise.
Here are some useful pages on our site:
- Main Page
- Our Vision
- Community Portal
- Tasks To Do Portal
- Discussion Forum
- Featured Article: Recovery from Acquired Brain Injury
- Soon to be featured: Clinical depression
Please have a look at the Psychology Wiki and let us know what you think. We need your criticisms as much as your advice. Most of all though, we need your Contributions in order to make the project a success. See Our Vision for more details.