- For summary articles, see green wiki and open development wiki.
There have been many green wikis, dating back to Ekopedia (started in 2002), Village Earth's Appropriate Technology Wiki Project (started in 2004) and Wiki Green (started in March 2006) - the last two of which have since joined forces with Appropedia, and the first of which is currently in discussions about a merger. (See Appropedia:Tributary wikis for a complete list of merged wikis - these wikis are not listed below.)
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Active wikis with a focus on green living, international development, appropriate technology and related subjects, starting with the most active wikis, include the following. (If you find one that is inactive, please mark it Inactive and move to the bottom.)
Some fields have not been filled in (to complete every detail for every wiki would be extremely time consuming), but feel free to update and add to the table. (Leave the details on the talk page if you find the table markup confusing. We hope to have an easier way to edit tables, in time.)
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- Topics:
- G = Green green issues (specific or general)
- A = Activism and/or politics in sustainability.
- Dev = Human and international development topics
- ID = International development, poverty, and humanitarian aid
- HD = Human development more generally, not necessarily in less developed countries.
- OD = Open design, including Open Design Appropriate Technology and open hardware.
Notes:
- This is a sortable table - click the icon on each column heading to sort by the various criteria - including activity ("Edits in 30 days), number of pages, and topics.
- Activity is assessed by the number of edits in 30 days, with certain exceptions.[1] This is not a highly accurate measure of activity, as edits vary widely in size and quality - however it's a useful initial indicator. This number is followed by "RC" which is a link to RecentChanges for 30 days, where available.
- In some cases the wiki only allows the last 7 days to be viewed; in this case an estimate is made for 30 days (multiplying by 30/7), and this is noted.
- Start date has sometimes been based on when the main page was created, when other data has not been found - in these cases it is marked.[2] This could be an underestimate of age in some cases, if the wiki or the front page has moved.
Project | Focus/scope | Green? | Act? | Dev? | OD |
Start date; launched by. | License[3] | Pages[4] | Edits in 30 days[1] | Notable features |
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Appropedia | A very broad resource on sustainability, international development and appropriate technology. | G | HD, ID | OD | 2006-04-04; Independent (Appropedia Foundation)[5] | CC-BY-SA | 3,905[6] | 1,881 edits in 30d[7] est. from 7 d count of 439; may vary widely.[8] RC | ||
Greenlivingpedia - | Green buildings and green living in mainstream Western, urban settings. | G | 2007-02-11; Peter Campbell & Rob Janson, background in IT, an interest in green building? | GFDL, presumably moving to CC-BY-SA | 0,444[6] | 0,319 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
Coastal Wiki | Ecology and the natural environment of coasts. | G | 2006-11-24; ENCORA - joint program of various European networks (governmental? NGO?) | Undefined[9] | 1,101 | 0,908 edits in 30d,[7] est. from 7 d count of 249. RC | Restricted to approved scientist contributors. | |||
BioenergyWiki | Biofuels, bioenergy sustainability, and related issues. | G | 2004-08-05; BioenergyWiki | CC-BY-NC-SA | 0,560 | 0,188 edits in 30d, [7] RC | ||||
Pure Energy Systems Wiki a.k.a. PES Network, Inc. | Zero-point energy[10] as well as less controversial forms of alternative energy. | G | 2004-08-05; Pure Energy Systems a.k.a. PES Network, Inc. | GFDL | 3,276 | 0,446 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
Open Source Ecology (The Factor E Farm wiki) |
Open design appropriate technology; self-sufficiency, living off the grid, documenting Factor E Farm's technological development. The nuts and bolts of sustainability. Open Source Ecology. | G | HD | OD | 2007-08-20; Marcin Jakubowski, hands-on appropriate technologist. | Dual: GFDL 1.2, CC-BY-SA 3.0 | 0,275 | 0,248 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||
Osemidmo edits in 30d[7] [ RC] | Open design appropriate technology; self-sufficiency, living off the grid, related to Factor E Farm. | A group connected to Factor E Farm & the Open Source Ecology wiki. | 0,006 | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | WYSWYG editing (FCKeditor). | |||||
My ECO Guide wiki (People for Earth)] About Inactive (404 error) |
how to enjoy eco-friendly living and take serious action in a balanced way. | G | 2008-07-31; People For Earth | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | 0,239 | 0,221 edits in 30d[7] based on 155 edits in 21 days. RC | ||||
Sola Roof Wiki | Green building, specifically the SolaRoof design: "Liquid Bubble Insulation and Liquid Solar technologies."Richard Nelson | G | 2004-01-09; Richard Nelson a.k.a. Sola Roof Guy | CC-BY-NC-SA | 0,751[11] | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | PmWiki, uses sub-wikis.[12] | |||
Ekopedia (French version) About: French, machine translation |
Focus/scope | G | ID? | 2004-07-02[13]; Jean-Luc Henry machine trans., an individual from France, in Canada. | Licence Art Libre (Free Art License, FAL) | 1,802 | 0,754 edits in 30d[7] est. from 7 d count of 176 RC | Multi-lingual (mainly French). | ||
Ekopedia About |
to define and explain the techniques allowing us to build a better life for us and our environment | G | Start date; (launched by Jean-Luc as with the French site?). | FAL/GFDL (dual) | 0,170 | 0,023 edits in 30d[7] [ RC] | Multi-lingual (mainly French). | |||
SDWiki About |
Open methodologies for sustainable business. | G | 2007-12-17; Sean McClowry, business and tech background. | CC-BY | 0,082 | 0,002 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
P2P Foundation - cataloging the big ideas around peer-to-peer collaboration, in areas including sustainability and development; connecting movements and projects with a common ethos. | Focus/scope | OD | 2005-04-25; Michel Bauwens. | CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 plus fair use | 6,966 | 0,487 edits in 30d[7] [ RC] | ||||
Wikia Green, a commercially operated wiki, launched in 2008. This was well over a year in the planning, with some difficulty finding suitable people to lead the project. Launched with much fanfare in the media. | Focus/scope | G | 2008-??; Jimmy Wales.[14] | License | 0,748 | 0,249 edits in 30d. RC | Wikia site | |||
Climate and Conservation wiki About |
Global Climate Change (GCC) / Global Warming and how it relates to and affects the conservation of biodiversity. | G | Start date; David Wiedenfeld (contact (biologist/academic) | GFDL | 0,134 | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] Site now appears to be down.[15] RC | ||||
Envirowiki About |
Environmentalism and social justice (global but with an Australian focus) | G | A | 2006-08-18; User:Naught101 | GFDL, presumably moving to CC-BY-SA[16] | 0,525 | 0,038 edits in 30d[7] RC | |||
Global Warming Art About |
Graphic images and information about climate change; aims to provide easy access to the data and results that have framed the scientific discussion of climate change. | G | A | 2005-11-17; Robert A. Rohde: Wikipedian, PhD student in physics | GFDL | 0,070 | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | |||
Technology and Social Action Wiki was established to foster dialogue and collaboration between activists in social movements, voluntary and community organisations and technology designers. | Focus/scope | A | Start date; launched by. | License | (?)[17] | 0,000, Currently inactive (server error)[18] | ||||
TipThePlanet About |
encourages discussion and the generation tips that benefit you and the planet. | G | 2006-09-15; | CC-BY-SA[19] | 0,425 | 0,009 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
Sustainable Community Action About |
To link up community and personal action for sustainability worldwide. | A | Start date; Wikia community.[14] | GFDL[16] | 1,639 | 0,703 edits in 30d[7] RC | Wikia site | |||
Wikigoodglobe, or "EcoWiki" About |
An enviroment and social justice wiki | G | A | 2006-01-24; ??. | Undefined[9] | 0,124 | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | |||
Sustainable Ballard About |
Non-profit organization developing a grassroots vision of sustainability for the community of Ballard, (Seattle) | G | A | 2005-10-25; local community. | Undefined[9] | 0,358 | 0,197 edits in 30d[7] RC | |||
Swindon Climate Action Network About |
For Swindon Climate Action Network volunteers to share information with each other and with the wider world | G | A | 2006-02-??; independent group of people from across Swindon. | None found[20] | 0,071[21] | 0,032 edits in 30d[7] RC | An "EditMe" web site, which is "a kind of wiki". Everyone involved with SCAN can edit. | ||
The Sustainable Campuses project | to empower students to lead initiatives on their campuses toward greater social, ecological and economic sustainability | G | Not found;[22]; Sierra Youth Coalition[23] | (Not found) | (?)[17] | 0,020 edits in 30d[7] RC[24] | ||||
EcoReality[1] | An actively forming ecovillage in the South Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada. | G | A | 2005-02-05[25]; Jan Steinman/Saltspring Ecovillage Education and Development Society, EcoReality Sustainable Land Use and Education Cooperative" | CC-BY-NC-SA | 0,290 | 0,194 edits in 30d[7] RC | |||
Cloud Forest Institute - About(pre-spammed version) | Preparing students to forge a peaceful, sustainable, diverse, healthy, respectful, balanced, equitable, and hopeful future. | G | 2004-08-19; Start date; Cloud Forest Institute | Undefined[9] | 0,166 | 0,009 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
Critical Mass wiki | Focus/scope | G | A | 2006-06-19; Wikia community[14] | GFDL/CC-BY-SA[16] | 0,265 | 0,286 edits in 30d[7] RC | Wikia site | ||
Sustainability Wiki[2] | Focus/scope | G | 2008-09-04; Luca de Alfaro & Ian Pye; hosted by UCSC Engineering | Undefined[9] | 0,001 | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] est. from 7 d count of 0. (Heavily spammed.) RC | ||||
PATA's Sustainable Tourism Wiki | Focus/scope | G | 2007-12-20; Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). | Undefined[9] | 0,050[17] | 0,005 edits in 30d[7] [ RC] 2008-12-18: shutdown |
WYSIWYG (Wetpaint) | |||
The "Good Tourism" Wiki |
Responsible tourism | G | 2008-12-18?; David Gillbanks (after being to shut down PATA's Sustainable Tourism Wiki) | Undefined[9] | 0,052[17] | 0,005 edits in 30d[7] RC[26] | WYSIWYG (Wetpaint) | |||
Huddler's Green Home Community - Commercial wiki. | Focus/scope | G | (?) March 2008 or later; Huddler.com, green commercial site. | Copyright | (?) | 0,024 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
2People | Focus/scope | G | A | Start date; launched by. | License | (?) | (no stats accessible unless logged in) | Not obvious that some or all of the site is a wiki. | ||
Green Infrastructure Wiki | Focus/scope | G | Start date; launched by. | License | 0,119[17] | 0,011 edits in 30d[7] RC | WYSIWYG (Wetpaint) | |||
Sustainable Indiana 2016 2007-01-08, 2016, sponsored by Earth Charter Indiana | Sustainability in Indiana, USA. | G | Start date; launched by. | License | 0,098[17] | 0,050 edits in 30d[7] RC | WYSIWYG (Wetpaint) | |||
Playgreen.org (About) | Focus/scope | G | Start date; launched by. | License | (?)[17] | 0,004 edits in 30d[7] [ RC] | ||||
Transition Towns Wiki, archived, with new activity at a new non-wiki site. | Focus/scope | G | A | Start date; launched by. | License | 1,054[27][17] | 0,244 edits in 30d in main sections.[7] RC | PmWiki. 96 subwikis, mostly locality based (structure. | ||
It's Not Easy Being Green Wiki | Focus/scope | G | A | Start date; launched by. | License | (?)[17] | 0,005 edits in 30d[7] [ RC] | |||
Seattle Permaculture Guild | Focus/scope | G | Start date; launched by. | License | (not found?)[17] | 0,007 edits in 30d[7] RC (not clear if this includes subwikis) | ||||
PermaWiki Almost inactive (around 2 edits per month). | Focus/scope | G | Start date; Wikia community.[14] | License | 0,203 | 0,008 edits in 30d[7] RC | Wikia site | |||
Stop Global Warming Almost inactive | Focus/scope | G | A | Start date; launched by. | License | 0,011[17] | 0 edits in 30d[7] [ RC] | WYSIWYG (Wetpaint) | ||
Global Warming | Art about climate change | A | 0,010[17] | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | WYSIWYG (Wetpaint) | |||||
YesMagazine wiki | Focus/scope | G | A | ID? | Start date; launched by. | License | 0,187 | 0,001 edit in last 30 days.[7] RC | ||
Sustainability Wiki at Wiki Spot. Inactive | Focus/scope | G | Start date; launched by. | License | 0,022[17] | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
Sustainapedia Northwest Inactive (server error) | Focus/scope | G | Start date; launched by. | License | 0,078 | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
Sustainapedia.com Inactive (not to be confused with the other Sustainapedia which merged into Appropedia.) | Focus/scope | G | Start date; launched by. | License | 0,011 | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
Bright Green Living | G | 2004-09-13; Worldchanging.com[28] | CC-BY | 0,449[29] | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | |||||
SFBayAreaGreen | Green issues, restricted to students of San Jose State University. | G | 2008-10-16; | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | 0,004[17] | 0,001 edit in (est.) 30 days, 2008[30][31] RC | restricted | |||
CopperWiki | Sustainability, consumer info. About - "gives us choices for living a healthy, useful and conscious life." | 2007-07-09; [copperstrings.com CopperStrings] (About Us) | Not specified | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d[32][7] [ RC] | ||||||
Green Options wiki | Green Options Media blog network (About). Commercial. | G | 2007-02 or 2007-01? | (?) | (?)[17] | 0,007 edits in 30d[33][=40 RC] | ||||
Green Hotels, . | Copyright (notice at bottom). | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[34] [ RC] | ||||||||
Green Museums - moderately active. | (?)[17] | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[34] [ RC] | WYSIWYG (Wetpaint) | |||||||
Great Lakes Wiki - moderately active. It is unclear "User:Sysop" is a professor at Michigan State University and some or all other admins are also associated with this university. | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[34] [ RC] | |||||||||
Green Cooking Wiki "simple ways to green-up your cooking" Inactive - no changes from 28 Jul 2008 to present (21 Nov 2008). | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[34] [ RC] | |||||||||
The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts] Inactive | Arts | G | Start date; launched by. | License | (?) | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d [ RC] | Notable features | |||
building-green wiki - A quick website for Brighton & Hove Building Green Inactive (no edits in 9 months to 21 Nov 2008). The About page on the main site says "Building Green has a wiki. You can access minutes of meetings and so on there." - But although it has a specific purpose, it apparently has not been updated, and "minutes" returns no results. | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[34] [ RC] | |||||||||
[http://www.greeninventions.net/ | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[34] [ RC] | |||||||||
WirelessAfrica wiki | ICT4D, Africa, wireless | ID | 2007-06-08; Meraka Institute - ICT in Education, South Africa. | Undefined[9] | (?) | 0,049 edits in 30d[7] RC | ||||
ICT4D.at About |
ICT4D: the Austrian Network for Information and Communication Technologies for Development. | ID | 2008-12-02; launched by. | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | 0,010 | 0,098 edits in 30d.[31] RC | Notable features | |||
ICT4DWiki | ICT4D | ID | Engineers Without Borders Australia[3] | Start date; launched by. | [4] | 0,150 | 0,000 edits in 30d[7] RC | Cross-login with phpBB forum (no longer active). | ||
ICTology About |
ICT4D | ID | 2005-02-24; Ismael Peña-Lópe, lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia | CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0[35] | 0,399 | 0,024 edits in 30d[7] RC | Spanish language interface to the same wiki | |||
Solar Cooking Archive Wiki About |
Using solar energy to cook food and pasteurize water. Design, manufacture and promotion. | G | ID | OD | 2006-12-14; Solar Cookers International (see About)[14] | GFDL | (?) | 0,182 edits in 30d[31] RC | Wikia site; multi-lingual | |
Howtopedia (en) About |
Practical knowledge on simple technologies. | G | HD | 2004[36]; Maud Chatelet & others, based in Zurich. |
License | 0,209 | 0,018 edits in 30d[31] RC | Multi-lingual (French 58 pages & Spanish 11 pages) | ||
Akvopedia | Water: Water and sanitation subjects, especially low cost technologies. | ID | OD | 2007-05-18; Akvo. | GFDL[16] | 0,093 | 0,084 edits in 30d[7] RC | Akvo is working to integrate the knowledge resource with access and feedback mechanisms using mobile phone technology. | ||
ClimateNetworkWiki | campus community members and organizations that have come together to see how education institutions can create solutions to the climate crisis. | G | 2007-11-19; British Columbia student organizations |
GFDL | 0,257 | 0,046 edits in 30d[31] RC | ||||
WaterWiki | Water: | HD | 2005-08-02; UNDP | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | 2,189 | 0,446 edits in 30d,[31] est. from 104 edits in 7 days[37] RC | Notable features | |||
OpenWater Wiki About |
Laboratory and field analysis of water quality | HD | Start date; the UNEP GEMS/Water Programme | License | (not found) | 0,001 edit in last 30 days.[31] RC | Based on Drupal (CMS) | |||
Water Wiki About? |
Water: "hydrology, water rights, irrigation and any other topic which relates to water resources." | G | HD | Start date; Wikia community.[14] | GFDL | 0,457 | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[31] RC | Wikia site; Also in Chinese (About). | ||
Water Wiki (UNC School of Government) [sogweb.sog.unc.edu/Water/index.php/Water_Wiki:About About] |
Water: "a place for experts and everyone else to share and refine their knowledge about water policy and law." | HD | Start date; launched by. | License | (?) | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[31] [ RC] | Notable features | |||
BCEOHRN Water Wiki | Focus/scope | G | HD/ID | Start date; launched by. | License | 0,009 | 0,000 edits in 30d.[38] RC | Notable features | ||
Atlanta Water Shortage Wiki | Focus/scope | HD | Start date; launched by. | License | (?) | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[31] [ RC] | Notable features | |||
[http://argoedwater.wikispaces.com/ argoedwater | Focus/scope | G | Start date; launched by. | License | (?) | (insert edit count in 0,000 format) edits in 30d.[31] [ RC] | Notable features | |||
AdCiv.org (Advanced Civilization Wiki) | Post-scarcity | G | HD | 2005-08-22; Charles Collis | GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 | 0,098 Pages | 0,013 edits in 30d.[31] RC | |||
Summer School on Global Sustainability | Information on courses. | G | Start date; launched by. | Undefined[9] | 0,050 | 0,014 edits in 30d.[31] [ RC] | A section within the Santa Fe Institute Event Wiki.[39]) | |||
KM4Dev wiki! | Knowledge Management for Development | ID | 2007-01-07; launched by ? | CC-BY-SA 3.0 NonCommercial | 0,310 | 0,046 edits in 30d.[40]RC | Community combines Ning-Dgroups-Mediawiki, active mailing list, & uses km4dev tag on Twitter. | |||
KSToolKit Wiki | Knowledge sharing, especially in international development. | ID | 2008-02-21; "tjordan3" (representing an organization?) | CC-BY-SA 3.0 (in footer) | 0,220 pages | 0,013 edits in 30d.[41] RC | Involves the ICT-KM Program of CGIAR, FAO and the KM4Dev.org community | |||
GrassrootsWiki.org | Technical solutions & processes esp for developing countries & crisis regions.[5] | ID | OD | 2009-07; launched by? | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | 0,032 | 0,000 edits in 30d.[42] [ RC] (spammed and almost inactive) | |||
HurricaneWiki.org (formerly Tsunami Help wiki | Emergency/disaster management | ID, HD | OD | 2005 or 2004 as Tsunami Help Wiki? 2008-08-31 as HurricaneWiki?[43]; Hurricane Information Center | public domain? | 0,146 | 0,369 edits in 30d.[44] RC | |||
Demotech | Appropriate technology as solutions to poverty | ID | OD | Start date; launched by. | (?) (other parts of Demotech site are marked CC-BY-SA) | (not found)[17] | 0,018 edits in 30d.[45] RC | PmWiki; some Spanish content. | ||
WikiProgress | Human progress, progress indicators | HD | 2009-10?; OECD. | GFDL 1.3 | 0,491 | 0,148 edits in 30d.[46] RC | ||||
WikiGender | Gender issues, incl in development | HD | 2007-09?; OECD. | GFDL 1.3 | 0,931 | 0,141 edits in 30d.[47] RC | Google Translate in wiki skin; Facebook Connect. | |||
Joint Bioenergy Institute Wiki | Bioenergy | G | Start date; Lead sponsor, U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). | Non-commercial research use allowed | 0,074 | 0,005 edits in 30d.[33] RC | Notable features | |||
StreetsWiki | Livable streets, urban planning. | G | 2007[48] | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | 0,299[17] | 0,001 edit in (est.) 30 days[49] RC | ||||
WikiPH | Public health | HD | 2007-05-10[2]; launched by. | Undefined | 0,145 | 0,000 edits in 30d.[50] RC | ||||
The Public Health Wiki | Public health | HD? | 2007-06-16[2]; University of Manitoba | Copyright is held by a university body | 0,087 | 0,002 format) edits in 30d.[51] RC | ||||
openenergymonitor | open source energy monitoring, tutorials on building energy monitors, solar hot water controllers etc | G | A | OD | January 2009 launched by Trystan Lea | GNU GPL | ||||
Permaculture.info | Permaculture | G | Start date; launched by. | CC-BY-SA 3.0 | 330 | 0,000 edits in 30d. RC | Was offline for an extended period, and has had serious spam problems. Update: Merging into Appropedia as of September 2012 (pending developer assistance and database cleanup). | |||
Transition Cambridge | Focus/scope | G | A | Start date; launched by. | None stated[9] | [url-of-Special:Statistics-page Number-of-Pages in 0,000 format] | INSERT EDIT COUNT IN 0,000 FORMAT edits in 30d.[34] [ RC] | Notable features | ||
EcoArchWiki | Sustainable architecture - European examples | G? | Start date; launched by. | None stated[9] | [url-of-Special:Statistics-page Number-of-Pages in 0,000 format] | INSERT EDIT COUNT IN 0,000 FORMAT edits in 30d.[34] [ RC] | ||||
Transition Ideas | Student-led sustainability projects | G | A? | Start date?; People & Planet | Undefined | [url-of-Special:Statistics-page Number-of-Pages in 0,000 format] | INSERT EDIT COUNT IN 0,000 FORMAT edits in 30d.[34] [ RC] | Not MediaWiki - bespoke platform? | ||
Green Policy 360 | Green policy for global greens | G | Start date; launched by. | Undefined | 2,276 | 0,005Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag Based on my own experience with wikis, and with my personal focus on locality-independent content, this strikes me as an inferior system from an information architecture perspective - however it does have a certain appeal, in terms of group identity and an architecture which is more easily grasped by the newcomer.
Note that although the local groups are very prominent in these two wikis, this is at least partly due to the fact that they have not created the same kind of locality-independent content. Both types of content are important, and finding ways to achieve both at the same time will be an important question for those in this area, in the next few years. Collaborative design?The main focus of most of these wikis is sharing knowledge in some form other than design. Exceptions include:
(****scroll through) Non-wikis include: Projects with flexibility of input style:
Projects aiming at a more structured form of input, which would enable tracking of changes to the design in a way analogous to the diffs in a wiki page. This looks very useful where the issues revolve around the precise design, but may be less useful for gaining participation by less technical people, or where the main issue to convey is a broad design concept, and where there is flexibility in the details of the design (e.g. a briquette press made from old wooden crates or branches).
Sharing of designs where lack of openness may be a restriction include:
These have some similar challenges to the Open Architecture Network, mentioned above. Effect of mergingAt face value, looking at the example of Appropedia (Appropedia:A history of collaboration), it may appear that merging has led to an activity decrease with in some green wikis - contributors from one of the wikis will tend to not contribute greatly to the combined effort. However, closer inspection of the timing of activity changes and broader patterns of wiki development reveals that:
That's not to say it isn't a concern, and it needs further analysis. The experience of Appropedia and WikiGreen suggests that merging is definitely best for visibility and traffic, and that brings more contributors. But the original contributors don't necessarily hang around - or, to be more accurate, don't necessarily start contributing again. Notes
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