This is how to get Steem on Wikipedia

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to become part of the biggest encyclopedia it needs some effort...part of history we will become anyway

As you might have heard, Steem has no own Wikipedia article. Steem(it) does, but not Steem as the protocol. Some user like vikisecrets and I (Wikipedia Article) have independently tried to address this issue. The articles got deleted. I first was upset because it was not biased and only official/technical or primary sources were used, but then I understood that the moderator on Wikipedia is just doing his/her job. In this case I dont think it is cencorship, Wikipedia even have an article about the Wikipedia-fork called Everipedia. And as I saw some minutes ago, we now have an Everipedia article.

I understand that bringing Steem to Wikipedia should not be carried out as an act of activism. As long as the references are steem-centric, a Steem article will not make it. I see that Wikipedia has a point. Their site, their rights.

The problem is, that Steem as a community is self-referential, most articles written about Steem come from the ecosystem of Steem

So, how to:

first one needs patience, it is not effective to make moderators angry. One should wait some days until the next try and study the Wikipedia guidelines.

Scientific Articles covering Steem or Steem use cases

Second, independent sources. Here is a list of academic papers covering Steem.

Kiayias, A., Livshits, B., Mosteiro, M., Litos, O. (2018): A Puff of Steem: Security Analysis of Decentralized Content Curation“. arxiv.org arXiv preprint arXiv

Thelwall, M. (2017): “Can social news websites pay for content and curation? The SteemIt cryptocurrency model“ journals.sagepub.com Journal of Information Science

Flood, J. A., and Robb, L. (2017): "Trust, Anarcho-Capitalism, Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings" (November 20, 2017). Griffith University Law School Research Paper No. 17-23; U. of Westminster School of Law Research Paper.

Chohan, Usman W., The Concept and Criticisms of Steemit (February 23, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3129410 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3129410

Bartling and Fecher (2016): Blockchain for science and knowledge creation. A technical fix to the reproducibility crisis ?

Kim and Chung (2018): Sustainable Growth and Token Economy Design:
The Case of Steemit. Department of Crypto MBA, Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies (aSSIST), Seoul

Yanovich et al. (2018): Blockchain-Based Supply Chain for Postage Stamps

Governmental Articles or Statements about Steem

CCID (January 2019) Chinese Ministerium ranked Steem as top 10 blockchain technology

Third, before we try again we maybe should peer review? But uploding on steem of course is no good idea, maybe as a PDF.

Since this one will not find its way to Wikipedia, feel free to recycle some of my passages or extract the sources

Steem

Steem is an opensource protocol, enabling a blockchain-based, decentralized ledger technology (DLT), utilizing smart and social currencies for publishers and content businesses across the internet [1]. Steem was initially proposed by Daniel Larimer and Ned Scott. In contrast to DLTs like Bitcoin (Proof of Work) or Ethereum (Proof of Work), Steem uses Delegated Proof-of-Stake Consensus (DPOS) [1], [2]. Steem as the protocol utilizes two different fee-less cryptocurrencies:

• Steem (Currency symbol STEEM)
• Steem Dollar (SBD) – Steem internal stable coin with a one-way peg [2]

The basic idea behind Steem is, that it enables people to earn the currency by using their brain (what can be called “Proof-of-Brain”). On top of Steem, there are running several decentralized applications (dApps) like Steemit.com, a decentralized social media and content platform, where users are rewarded with STEEM and SBD. The value of the tokens depends on the market value. The tokens are traded on different secondary markets like crypto-currency-exchanges around the globe [3], [4]. One can find a technical description of Steem in the Steem Whitepaper [1] and the Steem Bluepaper [2].

An extension of the Steem protocol is the Smart-Media-Token protocol [5]. The aim of the protocol is to empower online- publisher and businesses to launch their own Smart Media Tokens (SMT), which can be integrated into online-business models in such a way, that websites can align incentives and spur growth, while websites are empowered to adopt sustainable, currency-centric revenue models. [5]

History

Steem was developed to be a platform, where content is un-censorable by central agents and is financially rewarded by viewers/readers, without the viewer/reader paying. This is established by redistributing a reward-pool, which derives its value by the market-value [6],[7] of the tokens. To ensure the token-supply, Steem uses an inflationary model, where tokens are created by a fixed amount. To ensure the tokens maintaining value, users and investors are incentivized to vest their tokens. Vesting on Steem is a lock-in of the Steem-tokens, which in exchange gives the user or investor influence on the platform (accounted as Steem-Power, symbol: SP) [9].

Steem first was introduced to a wider audience together with the user-interface Steemit (Steemit.com) on Bitcointalk.org on May 9th 2016[10], Steemit was a proposal to solve the problems, users experience on platforms like traditional forums. The problems according to Daniel Larimer are plagiarism, troll-comments and spam, making it hard to find valuable content directed to the actual topic of the thread. [11]. Even though Steem was proposed by Daniel Larimer und Ned Scott, the co-founders of Steemit Inc. developing an app like Steemit, Steem should not be confused with Steemit or Steemit Inc. Steemit, Inc. is a privately held company based in New York City, with a headquarter in Virginia founded by Ned Scott and Dan Larimer in 2016 [12]. A part of the Steemit Inc. team is involved in the development of the Steem protocol, but this does not change the fact that Steem (the code contibuted by Steemit Inc. and contributors) is completely open source (MIT license [13]) and not owned, nor issued by any company or entity. Implemented technologies and protocols like Graphene, FC, and Boost with their own copy-right holders can fall under different licenses.

Co-founder Daniel Larimer describes the consensus mechanism as “subjective proof-of-work”, which produces valuable content as a byproduct. Content which is valuable to readers all across the internet, searching for information to a specific topic. So, the content is not restricted to Steem-users only. [14]

To ensure that STEEM were initially offered in an autonomous way, STEEM was mineable with a CPU. The Steem protocol supported 100% proof-of-work. This mining phase was announced several days in advance on the bitcointalk.org forum so that no coins were pre-mined [15]. After Ned Scott, it was designed as a voluntary opt-in system without any financial promise. When the introductory phase was finished, Steem moved to its delegated proof-of-Stake algorithm, with 5% proof-of-work as an additional income source for the delegates to cover the running cost for servers []. An Introduction of how to set up a Steem-miner was given on steem.center[16]. With the hard-fork 0.17, the proof-of-work mining was completely removed from the protocol on the January 10th, 2017. [17]

On March 14, 2017, Daniel Larimer resigned as Chief Technology Officer of Steemit Inc. [18]. Since then, work on the platform has continued, all efforts and changes to the protocol can be viewed on GitHub [19]].

and so on ...

With the initial token distribution, we have a sensitive topic, which should be evaluated carefully.

Since here on Steemit are some experts on delegated proof-of-stake like @anonymint, maybe we have the chance to get some reliable independent sources?