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:
- Look up greywater (category)
- Read about greywater concepts (category)
- View case-studies, how-to's and common errors to avoid for various greywater projects (article)
- Edit and add their own greywater experiences, projects, how-to's and common errors to avoid (article)
or skip to any of these steps.