RiskiPedia is a collaborative, data-driven, interactive encyclopedia of risks. Well, it is far from an encyclopedia right now; it is just launching, and mostly consists of half-baked pages I’ve created to exercise the MediaWiki extensions that make the pages interactive.

Try it at https://riski.wiki -- you can explore the chances you'll end up in the emergency room tomorrow or the risk you'll get mauled by a grizzly if you spend all summer hiking in Glacier National park.

I’m working on it because I’ve been frustrated that risks are typically presented as binary “safe” or “dangerous”, usually with no mention of how dangerous or safe. I hope it will help people think more clearly about risks, so at least a few of them stop worrying about things that aren't very risky and maybe start worrying more about the things that actually are risky. Like driving.

I’m hoping to recruit early contributors from the rational thinking community to help launch RiskiPedia by:

Creating more pages about risks that people care about, or risks that people should care about.
Fact-checking the risks that are already there.
Helping with wiki administration: approving users, deleting spam (if it appears), helping to get consensus on policies and procedures and all the other Wiki-community stuff that I should probably know more about before launching this thing.
If you're a total geek, help out with the behind-the-scenes coding (it is all open source php and javascript up on github).

Anybody can create an account and contribute, don't feel like you need permission to jump in and help out.

RiskiPedia is not a business; if it is wildly successful there might be a RiskiPedia Foundation to support it. For now, I'll be funding anything that absolutely needs funding (like the server that it runs on) out of my own pocket.

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