New World Encyclopedia: About
Purpose
The New World Encyclopedia is designed to organize human knowledge so that the reader will learn information, not just for its own sake, but for its value to the world as a whole. The underlying goal of the encyclopedia is to promote knowledge that leads to happiness, well-being, and world peace.
This is a prototype of the future website that will contain thousands of carefully selected articles. This site contains a sample of articles already completed, information on the project vision, background and structure, and importantly how writers can apply to become a part of it.
This encyclopedia is intended for use by teachers and students that are drawn to the ease of use of Wikipedia, but are concerned about the quality and consistency of articles. It's goal is to provide editorial supervision by scholars like traditional print encyclopedias combined with the ease of use, hyperlinks, and greater detail found on-line encyclopedias.
This encyclopedia transcends the metaphysical assumptions of both the Enlightenment and Modern Encyclopedias. The originator of this project is Sun Myung Moon. The worldview that informs this encyclopedia proceeds on the basis of universal values found in the religious and spiritual traditions and in people of conscience, values drawn from original human purpose, and the design of creation.
A Free Online Encyclopedia
This encyclopedia designed for the general reader and is available online and is free to all people with internet access. It is greatly indebted to Wikipedia pioneers, the GNU-FDL License, and to a number of editors and writers who have used Wikipedia articles as the basis for their articles.
In keeping with the terms of the Free Document License, the article version of each document imported from Wikipedia is documented at the bottom of the page and is hyperlinked to the Wikipedia article so that a complete history of its construction has been kept.
The philosophical and axiological foundations for the project derive from his life and teachings, especially as they are systematized in Unification Thought and other publicly available texts.
- Project Chairman: Chung Hwan Kwak, IIFWP
- Editor in Chief: Frank Kaufmann, IRFWP
- Business Manager: Gordon Anderson, Paragon House Publishers
- Managing Editor: Robert Brooks, New World Encyclopedia Project
- IT Consultant and Wikipedia liaison: Ed Poor
- Senior Advisor: Andrew Wilson, UTS
