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TON Wiki is an open encyclopedia about TON Ecosystem, collaboratively created by its community.

The encyclopedia offers readers unique and regularly updated content about the current components and products within TON Ecosystem.

Mission of the Encyclopedia: to document the history and growth of TON Ecosystem.

Goal: to introduce new Web3 users to TON and its features, and to attract new users into the Ecosystem. TON Wiki unites up-to-date information on one platform in multiple languages.

Objectives:

Collect and publish articles about TON in various languages in one user-friendly place
Actively engage the community in the development of the encyclopedia
Drive traffic to TON by having articles indexed in search engines, attracting thousands of new users

Target audience of TON Wiki:

Active contributors (TON community members, authors, native speakers, editors)
Content consumers: beginner Web3 users and active participants in TON Ecosystem
Project creators, aspiring developers, crypto investors, and sponsors

Encyclopedia Structure

Multilingual Platform

Currently, the encyclopedia is available in 12 languages (English, Russian, Spanish, French, Persian (Farsi), Arabic, Indonesian, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, Hindi, and Yoruba). Each language section runs on a dedicated subdomain like en.tonwiki.space with a language switcher in the left menu. At present, active content updates focus on three sections: English, Russian and Spanish.

Encyclopedia Sections

TON Wiki consists of three core sections for readers. The main section is Articles. Additional sections include TON Society AMA Reviews (text-based summaries of video AMAs) and TON Events (results of major events featuring TON blockchain).

Article Categories

Main section articles are sorted by category and tagged by topic, including:

DEX (Decentralized Exchanges)
DeFi (DeFi Products)
NFT (NFT Collections)
Telegram (Telegram and its integration with TON)
Blockchain (How TON works)
Jettons (TON Ecosystem Jettons)
Games (Game projects)
Tools (TON blockchain tools)
Wallets (Wallets supporting TON)
Community (TON community members)

Content Creation

Article Guidelines

TON Wiki authors should use a clear information style, stay objective, and focus on facts, avoiding complex or overly promotional language.

Articles must:

Clearly reflect the topic
Provide value to TON/Telegram Ecosystem
Be understandable to beginners

Articles must not:

Contain advertising language
Be overloaded with off-topic details unrelated to TON/Telegram

To help authors align with the Wiki's writing style, editors have created a dedicated guideline – the Editorial Policy.

How to Contribute

Anyone interested in TON Ecosystem and skilled in writing can become a TON Wiki contributor.

To begin creating content, users should register on the Wiki site and study these writing guides:

These documents are also pinned in TON Wiki working Telegram chat.

Next steps:

Propose a new article topic or choose from the List of Needed Articles
Write the draft (in Google Docs)
Submit the draft to the working chat for editor review
After revisions, authors upload the article to the Wiki

Translators select articles for translation and upload them after native-speaker review.

At the end of each period, authors, translators, and editors submit reward applications based on their completed work, using the current rates.

For support, contributors can join both the International and Russian-speaking working chats.

Tools and Infrastructure

TON Wiki runs on the open-source MediaWiki engine, where authors publish their content independently. A detailed guide to editing MediaWiki pages is available.

The Wiki Info spreadsheet helps track content development and includes:

Monthly reports on progress are published in TON Wiki GitHub thread.

Timeline and Milestones

February 2024: First article published – The Open Network
February 2024: International and Russian author communities launched on Telegram
March 6, 2024: TON Foundation approved support for TON Wiki
March 2024: Seven new language sections added: English, Spanish, French, Turkish, Persian (Farsi), Indonesian, and Ukrainian
March 2024: TON Wiki international and Russian news channels created
April 2024: Editorial Policy (RU) published
May 2024: Reached 10 language sections; 140 articles created by contributors during the month
June 2024: Articles organized into categories
July 2024: Site analytics showed a 2× increase in new readers compared to June
August 2024: TON Society AMA Reviews section launched
September 2024: Wiki became available as a Telegram Mini App
September 2024: Articles about key TON Foundation and Ecosystem figures published
October 2024: TON Events section launched
March 2024: Over 1,000 articles published
March 2024: First video AMA session with TON Wiki (RU) held

First Year Summary

Community size: 120+ in International chat, 200+ in Russian-speaking chat
Contributors who filled out the Team Application Form: 88
Active contributors: 41
Articles published in English: around 200
Total articles published: over 1,000

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