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Background

Purpose

The Four Areas

The four proposed areas (hopefully namespaces), are Category, Article, User and Working. More areas may be necessary:

Category Pages

• Include textbook or encyclopedic style entries, mostly from experts.
• Serve as categories for the original research, case studies, projects and how-to's in the Article namespace.
  • Also serve as categories for linked other media, such as excel tools, video virals and instructional videos focusing on multilingual accessibility approaches.
• Can be browsed by all for edification.
• Can be linked together on Working teacher pages for a curriculum, think:

Week 1: Study and edit if necessary Greywater 
        read and comment if desired Greywater at the Arcata Educational Farm 
                                    55 Gallon Drum Processed Greywater

Article Pages:

• Include original research, case studies, project writeups, how-to's
• See the List of Projects for examples
• I think I would rather this be called Project Namespace, but with no need to preface pages with "project:".

User Pages:

• Are for networking
• Include personal information such as affiliations and interests
• Include Organizational information such as services provided, needed, hours and links to organizational webpage.
• Utilize the discussion tab for contact and correspondance with potential partners.

Working Pages:

• Are common, collaborative, working pages
• Include pages for relevant grants
  • Find a grant that would be great for you, but you do not quite meet the criteria? Post it here for others to review.
• Highlight events
  • Publicize your event here
• Serve as calls for assistance and offerings of assistance
  • Have services to offer/request? How about materials to offer/request? Post it here (would craigslist be better?)
• Include book/link/article/tool reviews
  • Suggest and review resources here
  • Unlike the Categories and Articles, which should attempt unified result (Categories more than Articles) through peer review, reviews themselves should show personal opinions, with some editing as needed for neatness/spelling/appropriatedness, to avoid a "from the pulpit" endorsement of a given resource. (Thank you Yamaplos)
• Highlight local where-to-find-supplies pages
  • Think yourtown_yourregion_supplies. Place to post where to find supplies in your area.
  • Free bins, thrift stores, junk yards, repair shops, wood piles, clay piles.
  • See Humboldt CA Supplies for an early example.
• Highlight global where-to-find-supplies page
  • Internet and catalog resources
  • See Global Supplies for an early start to this page
• etc.

I see the Category and Article Namespace working together as follows, for example the users can:

1. Look up greywater (category)
2. Read about greywater concepts (category)
3. View case-studies, how-to's and common errors to avoid for various greywater projects (article)
4. Edit and add their own greywater experiences, projects, how-to's and common errors to avoid (article)

or skip to any of these steps.