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Overview

ProdWiki's goal is to organize all of the world's product information. ProdWiki assists people researching products to help them buy, sell, repair, upgrade, tinker, learn, and explore.

Inspired by Wikipedia, ProdWiki is based on the same software, Creative Commons license, and community guidelines, but with a different scope. While Wikipedia includes pages on "notable" topics in any subject, ProdWiki includes pages on any product.

Human + AI Collaborative Contribution Process

To improve efficiency, and thus the quality and scope of its contents, ProdWiki uses AI to add draft data to articles that humans then edit. We are inspired by how Project Gutenberg uses a combination of AI and human effort to digitize public domain books. First, they scan books and use OCR AI to create draft digital versions. Then, Distributed Proofreaders review and correct any mistakes. This process is much more efficient than having humans read and type in all of the public domain books without the AI-powered step first. Similarly, on ProdWiki, instead of needing people to gather all product data manually, AI generates the first draft, then people review and edit.

The ProdWiki admins are working on the initial version of the AI to power this process.

Like on Wikipedia, contributors on ProdWiki can add, edit, and discuss any article.

Administrators can also import data to create or add to pages. Please get in touch if you have a useful product data set to share.

What's Included

Product pages on ProdWiki aim to include comprehensive product facts, review information, manuals and repair info, news, and current pricing.

History

ProdWiki was started in July 2024, to organize all product information. It began with the laptops category, using data imported from a private database of a few hundred laptops.

Getting Started Contributing

First, visit this example laptop page, the Acer Swift 14.

Next, browse the Laptops category page or search to find a laptop. Hit the edit button to begin editing. Feel free to start making additions and changes. If you can verify that the information on a page is correct, remove the notice that the page needs verification.

To add a page, just go to the URL for it, as though it already exists. You can add pages on specific laptops, or other pages relevant to laptops.

If you have any questions or requests, just post them to the main discussion page: Talk:Main Page.

Join the ProdWiki Discord .