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Green wiki
From Appropedia
There are many green wikis, but only a few are active and have substantial content. The most active green wikis are, in order from most active:[1]
- Appropedia - broad focus
- Coastal Wiki focused on ecology and the natural environment of coasts.
- Ekopedia - broad focus (French version is most active, also in other languages). In merge discussions with Appropedia.
- Sustainable Community Action - activism & community
- Greenlivingpedia (site) - focused on green building, but also broader green topics.
- Critical Mass wiki - activism & community for cyclists.
- Wikia Green, a commercially operated green wiki, with more emphasis on green in popular culture.
- Another active wiki with a partial focus on green and development issues is the P2P Foundation wiki, more broadly focused on social and economic issues around peer-to-peer collaboration.
This is based on the data at Green wikis and development wikis - more wikis and a more detailed comparison can be found there. (All green wikis can be added there - only the most active or somehow notable wikis should be added here - use the sortable table on that page to find the most active wikis.)
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[edit] Past wikis
Many wikis have started and failed to grow; some wikis have merged into other projects.
Major merged wikis include WikiGreen, a substantial body of works on sustainable agriculture and more, merged into Appropedia in January 2007. More examples are at Appropedia: A history of collaboration.
[edit] Why so many green wikis?
Why so many inactive and dormant wikis? Because it's easy to start a wiki, and easy to imagine something grand such as Wikipedia with a green angle, but in reality, making a successful wiki is hard. The daily commitment is a hard thing, the tech challenges are daunting (e.g. stopping spammers and vandals), and sharing the vision and building a community are huge tasks in themselves. So is it possible to build a wiki? Yes! But it takes radical collaboration.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ ignoring sites focused on pseudoscience, mainly zero-point energy, such as unproven, unsourced claims of running cars on only water.
[edit] External links
Green collaborations - a blog series on the Appropedia Foundation Blog.
