There are turning points in the history of the world: the invention of fire, the discovery of texts, geographical discoveries, the conquest of Istanbul, the invention of the internet, the emergence of social media, finally blockchain-based systems and we are witnessing this transformation, the blockchain revolution.
Be aware of that, people! here, what we write on this site, will shed light on the mystery like wall paintings in caves in the primitive times. Our people or societies afterward may not understand anything, but as long as we write we will have left a mark on people and history after us. @mesutkelleci, a HEDE author, (source)

What is HEDE?

HEDE is an open-sourced friendly Wiki Platform where you can share information about anything in the universe by first defining it. Unlike traditional edit-based Wikis, we let multiple authors add entries into any HEDE topic without any approval, so it becomes a fun and fast way of creating wikis.

We encourage authors to share valuable and informal information based on curation from multiple sources or their personal experiences as we don't check for accurateness. The entries are accepted as self-cited and personal knowledge by default unless otherwise noted. We don't allow any kind of plagiarism and authors doing it will face strict penalties.

Instead of having boring statistics-based information, we aim to be a friendly knowledge base for humans by allowing opinionated informations that can not be found on Wikipedia. Authors on HEDE are rewarded with Steem & Sbd using Steem blockchain.

What are similar projects to HEDE?

Everipedia: Wiki Platform which was started because Wikipedia deleting 99% of the topics. Plans to reward Wiki collaborators with IQ token based on EOS Blockchain.
Urban Dictionary: Informal definitions of slang words
Eksi Sozluk is a collaborative dictionary in Turkish language.
Wikia is a for-profit, informal, free wiki hosting site

Who is behind HEDE?

HEDE was developed and founded by Ercument ESER (@ercu). The idea has been born and improved in the last 15 years by him when he had seen so many terms coming out everyday, but Wikipedia does not include them because of notability rules and him wanting to learn anything in a friendlier way. We have Community Helpers from all around the world, including @beyonddisability, @carlagonz, @eyupyusuf, @julstamban, @onos. We have been accepted as Utopian VIPO by the amazing Utopian team.

What type of content can be shared on HEDE?

For now, we expect authors to write about their culture, country, city, traditions, foods etc. and steem related terms in English and we will mostly upvote those topics using our @hede-io account. We will also have different contests with specific themes. However, there is no limit to the topics;

slang terms, memes
any project, product, online course
any event (ces 2018, mad cool festival 2018, steem gathering istanbul 2018)
people (Ned Scott, famous youtubers, politicians, fiction characters,"married man", instagrammers, people on the news)
your friend's username on steem
social media (YouTube channels, websites)
acts (get a tattoo, open a blog, be a father)
places, tv series, movies, books, restaurants

What problems does HEDE solve?

Our Aim is Making access to information easier.

The Internet is full of information that makes our choices easier. While Wikipedia and many wikis provide objective information, people want to see friendlier "experience-based information" thus tend to use Reddit comments, Quora answers, Twitter tweets, Amazon reviews, and Steem posts before deciding what to do, eat, buy, vote for, where to travel etc.

The problem is that, when we know the specific topic to search information for, we have to check all the posts one by one, read all duplicated posts and their comments which is very time-consuming. Often googling does not work here, as it shows content "related" to your query not directly "about" the topic. It is same on Steem, the tags show related posts but not directly about them. For example, to learn information about utopian-io you cannot use utopian-io tag as it will show any posts upvoted by them. Subreddits also include a broader range of topics which makes subreddits just like tags moderated by good people.

Wikis, Wikipedia, Urban Dictionary cannot keep up with the trend new terms, memes and apps coming up every day. On HEDE, you can very easily start a topic and publish your entry without any approval.

We believe and hope that HEDE will solve these problems and will be one of your choices to look at when you need information about a specific topic.

What has HEDE achived so far?

We got many new authors signed up just to write on HEDE, not on Steemit.
Old Steem accounts who have not been active for a long time started writing on HEDE when they heard about the project.
We have increased visibility of newcomer authors' posts and let them find like-mind people on the same topics.
Authors appreciate having freedom of speech by being unable to be restricted by a government
We have created a good knowledge base with information and experience about steem terms. We believe that newcomers can learn steem easily in this way.

What are the future plans?

We want to be the first choice for people to look at, when they need specific information. However for now, we just are focusing on our next step and accomplish it in the best way.

We want to attract more English-speaking people from all around the world to learn about their cultures.
We want to be most informative site for Steem related terms in English.
We will update the app as frequently as we can by fixing any potential problems and adding amazing new features.
We will be looking ways for adding SMTs into our design. SMTs should be on testnet in few months. SMTs will have many uses such as paying native ads with them.
We would love to be supported by Fundition.

Security

HEDE is highly secure by using Steem Connect for authentication and authorization. We do not keep your access tokens on the server but client, so even our server is compromised attacker can't do any harm to you. Your access tokens are stored on your browser encrypted with 2048 bit RSA key.

How will HEDE use the hearts and donations sent by Funditians?

The percentages of SBD and Steem funded by Funditians will be divided as:

45% to authors for contests

15% to development

15% to our Community Helpers and Moderators for their hard work

15% to Marketing for bring new authors to the project and Steem.

10% to our monthly server payout

What is HEDE Token?

HEDE Token is the cryptocurrency token that will be issued once SMT goes live. Total supply will be 500m. It will be used for rewarding authors, native ads, native promoted topic names, content requests from sponsors, promoted links. We will firstly airdrop our tokens to funditians who give their support to us.

How to contact HEDE?

We have a Discord server where you can share your ideas, feedback and all your questions and get notified about the announcements about the project. Click here to join the Discord server.

Thanks to Fundition team and Funditians

With the help of Fundition, we had an increased chance to speed up our journey and having a bigger community. Thank you all fundition team especially @free999enigma for answering all my questions in detail and guiding, @hightouch and @enisshkurti being available for any help and people funding the Fundition project itself. We want to use this opportunity to prove the world that this project will change their life in a better way.

HEDE: Wiki Platform on Steem