wikipilipinas

Last night the Wikipilipinas team and several Pinoy bloggers met at Marina Restaurant for a dinner and to discuss as well various topics about the Wikipilipinas and Filipiniana projects. There was more emphasis given on the former, which is actually a daughter site of the latter… it just turned out to be a better performer.
WikiPilipinas functions like how a wiki should be “with a twist”, it’s an online encyclopedia that specializes on everything Philippine-related. The point of it being a better alternative than Wikipedia for example, is that when it comes to Philippine topics, it is most likely that the Filipinos would produce a more detailed and balanced point-of-view with regards to the matter compared to those in a foreign perspective.
It could still be considered juvenile though with only 36,000 (as of time of writing) articles in its database and some of it being used merely as an online biography for self-promotion and such due to it’s free for all nature. I don’t think that would be harmful though because as a user, I will not go through every articles inside one by one but only check out those that are of my interest. More effort though is still necessary for the expansion of better quality articles.
What caught my attention was the “Skool Tools” from Filipiniana.net that could be of aid for students like me in researching from books through snippets from their digital library of real books. This means more substance for research projects the easier way, yay!