The project to create a scholarly and authoritative Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems continues to grow. The past year has brought about the most significant changes to how Scholarpedia operates since it was created in 2006: Scholarpedia has been completely rebuilt from the ground up. The changes are designed to provide the means for junior authors to initiate new articles by teaming up with world experts, and to give curators greater incentives to maintain their articles.

As before, articles in Scholarpedia are written, peer-reviewed, and curated by the world's top experts and original inventors, who used to be invited by the editor-in-chief.

Now, any user can nominate himself to write an article on any topic of his expertise. However, the user must obtain "sponsorship" from at least 2 existing Scholarpedia curators who would validate that the user is indeed the top world expert on the topic. (The number of required "sponsorships" is set to 1 temporarily).

The new mechanism allows students and postdocs to pair-up with the greatest living experts to get sponsorship and co-author articles.

Whereas the student's reward is an extra peer-review article with a famous person, the community benefits from having more topics covered by leading experts.

More details are at the Scholarpedia web site.

The encyclopedia page is here.

Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich - Editor-in-chief of Scholarpedia.