Difference between revisions of "Wiki Procedure"

Revision as of 01:40, 27 January 2013

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This wiki is focused on a wide variety of Topics around the technologies and practices that help contribute to thriving, resilient, & self sustaining communities.
The purpose of this wiki is to be a shared source of best practices, research, plans and data that is accumulated and refined over time by the user-base.

Don’t be afraid to post research as you go, it will be organized along the way.
It is good for the wiki to go wide first, then go deep. Even posting a good link to get a page started is helpful. Here is a list of empty pages that need to be developed. - Wanted Pages
A slightly developed wiki page will at least contain a link to a well developed article on the subject from another site. See rules above about linking to other sites.
A partially developed wiki article should be helpful in developing open source plans for implementing each technology
The end product wiki article will have full research, best practices, documented results, opensource plans or links to opensource plans for implementing the technology, including parts lists, budgets, and prototype videos

No Spam!
Do not recreate the wheel, or duplicate content on this site. Please do a search on this site before posting an article, also do a Google search.
If another site has already done a good job researching and developing a topic more than you planned to then just post a link to that site using wiki link syntax. Do not Link to sites that post only partial information in order to sell their book or video on the topic, unless they have published a significant article on the topic or have open source plans available online, then link directly to that article. Only link to outside articles that are significant and thorough, if the articles are weak then we need to create our own and remove the outside link. Each article should not have many links going out if the first link is significant, too many links will be moderated as spam.
Do strive for clarity, brevity, quality, and please get acquainted with the existing wiki data and organization before posting. Please write using the most common vocabulary, avoiding uncommon language as this wiki should be easy to understand for all.
Do not copy content from other locations.
Where you can post - Most all sub pages are editable, use the edit button at the upper right
Give credit to the source when referencing someones work

Use lots of Categories when editing a post- it really helps the wiki flow and navigation
Use Pictures and Picture Galleries - most people learn best visually

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 == Wiki Strategy - How you can help the most ==
 *Don’t be afraid to post research as you go, it will be organized along the way.
-*It is good for the wiki to go wide first, then go deep, Even posting a good link to get a page started is helpful. Here is a list of empty pages that need to be developed. - [[Special:WantedPages|Wanted Pages]]
+*It is good for the wiki to go wide first, then go deep. Even posting a good link to get a page started is helpful. Here is a list of empty pages that need to be developed. - [[Special:WantedPages|Wanted Pages]]
 *A slightly developed wiki page will at least contain a link to a well developed article on the subject from another site. See rules above about linking to other sites.
 *A partially developed wiki article should be helpful in developing open source plans for implementing each technology