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Factolex.com is a fact lexicon. We split up knowledge into small sentences: facts

You can use the checkboxes to remember the facts that you find relevant and by doing so, we create your personal lexicon (which can be exported using the API or a widget). Also, the more people select a fact as relevant to them, the higher it is ranked within the term.

I'd love to get some feedback from the HN community. Thanks for checking it out.

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very interesting. Could you tell me how its made?

what do you mean? like what it is built with (i.e. programming language, server etc)?

like the idea of project. how was definitions obtained?

The idea of the project is a new approach into collaborating on knowledge, by splitting the knowledge into smaller parts, and then being able to handle them in an easier way.

Most of the definitions come from Wikipedia. We started off trying to have people enter facts manually, but then I figured that we should leverage all the knowledge of Wikipedia that is freely available.

So I wrote a bot that is not particularly clever, but most of the times good enough for fetching facts from Wikipedia.

By the way, it can also extract facts from the German Wikipedia (there is a German version of Factolex as well: http://de.factolex.com/ as my mother tongue is actually German).

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