{"id":16185,"key":"Appropriate_technology_open_collaborations/Green_wikis_and_development_wikis","title":"Appropriate technology open collaborations/Green wikis and development wikis","latest":{"id":1261399,"timestamp":"2026-08-18T12:16:05Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Akvo navigation}}\n\n:''For summary articles, see '''[[green wiki]]''' and '''open development wiki'''.''\n\nThere 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.)\n\n== Active wikis ==\n\nActive 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.)\n\nSome 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.)\n\n'''Legend''':\n:'''Topics''':\n:*G = Green '''green''' issues (specific or general)\n:*A = Activism and/or politics in sustainability.\n:*Dev = Human and international development topics\n::*ID = International development, [[poverty]], and humanitarian aid\n::*HD = Human development more generally, not necessarily in less developed countries.\n:*OD = [[Open design]], including [[Open Design Appropriate Technology]] and [[open hardware]].\n\n'''Notes''':\n\n* 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.\n* Activity is assessed by the number of edits in 30 days, with certain exceptions.[\"Minor\" edits have been counted, as there is no consistent culture between users and wikis as to what is marked as minor. Bot edits are not counted. An attempt has been made to exclude welcome templates on talk pages; new user creation is also not counted, as there is no way of know to easily tell whether it is a serious editor or a spam bot account. Where spam and vandalism is noticeable, an attempt has been made to exclude this and the reversion of spam from the count. (While reversion of spam is a sign of collaboration, it is maintenance rather than creation of content.)] 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.\n* 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.\n* 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.[Based on the start date of main page, from its page history] This could be an underestimate of age in some cases, if the wiki or the front page has moved.\n\n{| class=\"wikitable sortable\"\n! Project\n! Focus/scope\n! Green?\n! Act?\n! Dev?\n! OD
\n! Start date; launched by.\n! License[A compatible license is essential for sharing content between wikis. However, when there are a small number of active contributors (often the case in these wikis) it may be relatively easy to get content relicensed.]\n! Pages[For MediaWiki this is taken from the number of probably legitimate pages on the '''Special:Statistics''' page. For other wikis, an AllPages or Sitemap page is used where available, though this usually leads to a higher figure as it includes tiny stubs and empty pages. When none was found, a question mark is placed in this column.]\n! Edits in 30 days[Founded by Lonny Grafman, university instructor; joined by a water engineer and an IT professional. Backgrounds: Appropriate technology, engineering, Wikipedia-editing, business, IT industry.]\n| [[CC-BY-SA]]\n| [[Special:Statistics|7,417]][Retrieved 2016-12-07]\n| 0,831 edits in 30d[Retrieved and calculated on a date between 2016-11-21 and 2016-11-28.] est. from 7 d count of 194[Although all wiki contributions may vary widely, Appropedia's reliance on [[service learning]] may lead to a greater variation according to student activity. E.g. 498 on 2008-01-05, est from 20 d of 332 (it's unclear why the number of days shown in Recentchanges keeps changing.)] [https://www.appropedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&limit=5000 RC]\n\n|-\n| [[Greenlivingpedia:|Greenlivingpedia]] -\n| [[Green buildings]] and [[green living]] in mainstream Western, urban settings.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2007-02-11; [[Greenlivingpedia:User:Peter Campbell|Peter Campbell]] & [[Greenlivingpedia:User:Rjanson|Rob Janson]], background in IT, an interest in green building?\n| [[GFDL]], presumably moving to [[CC-BY-SA]]\n| [http://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Special:Statistics 0,552][Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[Under the Berne Convention{{w|Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works}} the creator of a work automatically has copyright, thus undefined works are fully protected by copyright, under the law. Through the WTO as well as by nations signing the Berne Convention itself, this applies to most countries in the world.]\n| [http://web.archive.org/web/20080418001524/http://www.encora.eu:80/coastalwiki/Special:Statistics 2,321][Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,306 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[[[Zero-point energy]] energy, often claimed as being close to fulfillment, is regarded as pseudoscience by a great majority of scientists. It would require a fundamental rewriting of the laws of physics as we understand them. Even the proponents generally claim that their device] as well as less controversial forms of alternative energy.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2004-08-05; [http://web.archive.org/web/20160929042720/http://www.pureenergysystems.com:80/ Pure Energy Systems] a.k.a. PES Network, Inc.\n| [[GFDL]]\n| [http://web.archive.org/web/20130429135932/http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Special:Statistics 3,276]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d
(The Factor E Farm wiki)\n| 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]].\n| G\n|\n| HD\n| OD\n| 2007-08-20; Marcin Jakubowski, hands-on appropriate technologist.\n| [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Open_Source_Ecology:Copyright Dual: GFDL 1.2, CC-BY-SA 4.0]\n| [http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Special:Statistics 6,635][Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,402 edits in 30d[PageList minus PmWiki pages, RecentChanges, SideBar, SubIndex, blank pages (marked with \"?\") repetitions of a particular userpage, and minus the second listings of main pages of each subwiki.]\n| 0,001 edits in 30d[Each subwiki can have its own sidebar and RecentChanges page]\n\n|-\n| [http://www.p2pfoundation.net/ 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.\n| Focus/scope\n|\n|\n|\n| OD\n| 2005-04-25; [http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Bauwens%2C_Michel Michel Bauwens].\n| [http://web.archive.org/web/20150321225912/http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Foundation:Copyrights CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 plus fair use]\n| [http://web.archive.org/web/20091119055057/http://p2pfoundation.net:80/Special:Statistics 6,966]\n| 0,400 edits in 30d[Wikia sites are generally started at the initiation of an individual or group, though it's not always clear who this is. The [http://solarcooking.wikia.com/ Solar Cooking Archive Wiki] ([http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Cooking About]) is one exception to this, being led in the beginning and until now by one organization. [http://green.wikia.com/ Wikia Green] is another, being most obviously pursued and promoted by Jimmy Wales.]\n| License\n| [http://green.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics 0,665][Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,022 edits in 30d
[http://sustainableballard.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sustainable_Ballard:About About]\n| Non-profit organization developing a grassroots vision of sustainability for the community of Ballard, ([[Seattle]])\n| G\n| A\n|\n|\n| 2005-10-25; local community.\n| [http://sustainableballard.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sustainable_Ballard:Copyrights Undefined]
[https://www.swindonclimate.org.uk//AboutSite About]\n| For Swindon Climate Action Network volunteers to share information with each other and with the wider world\n| G\n| A\n|\n|\n| 2006-02-??; independent group of people from across Swindon.\n| None found[Tried site searches for permission, license, licence and \"Creative Commons\", 2010-01-02.]\n| [https://www.swindonclimate.org.uk//_Index 0,071][This is the number of publicly visible pages - some pages are only visible if logged in.]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[Started 2005-02-05 as [http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.islandseeds.org S.E.E.D.S. wiki] (defunct), content [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ecoreality.org moved to EcoReality.org] 2006-02-12] [http://web.archive.org/web/20201115131330/http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/User:Jan_Steinman Jan Steinman]/Saltspring Ecovillage Education and Development Society, EcoReality Sustainable Land Use and Education Cooperative\"\n| [http://web.archive.org/web/20210423075112/http://ecoreality.org/wiki/Special:Statistics 0,605][Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,057 edits in 30d[Currently [[GFDL]], expected to transition to [[CC-BY-SA]] in 2009.]\n| [http://criticalmass.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Statistics 0,402][Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,009 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d
[http://ictlogy.net/wiki/index.php?title=ICT4D_Wiki:About About]\n| ICT4D\n|\n|\n| ID\n|\n| 2005-02-24; [http://ictlogy.net/about-me/ Ismael Peña-Lópe], lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia\n| [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0][An \"ND\" (no derivatives) license seems problematic for a wiki, given that by nature derivatives are being made constantly. However, this may make sense if the ND condition applies only to the finished product and not to individual contributions.]\n| [http://ictlogy.net/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Statistics 0,633][Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d
[http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Cooking About]\n| Using solar energy to cook food and pasteurize water. Design, manufacture and promotion.\n| G\n|\n| ID\n| OD\n| 2006-12-14; Solar Cookers International (see [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Cooking About])[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,651 edits in 30d
[http://www.howtopedia.org/en/Howtopedia_-_english:About About]\n| Practical knowledge on simple technologies.\n| G\n|\n| HD\n|\n| 2004;[The English main page was [http://web.archive.org/web/20090126225335/http://howtopedia.org:80/wiki-en/?title=Main_Page&action=history created 2006-11-13], (fr 2007-01-09 & es 2007-01-14) but [http://www.howtopedia.org/en/Howtopedia_-_english:About About] states 2004. Was this a different installation, different software, or just the planning stages?]
Maud Chatelet & others, based in Zurich.\n| License\n| [http://www.howtopedia.org/en/Special:Statistics 0,268][Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,185 edits in 30d
[sogweb.sog.unc.edu/Water/index.php/Water_Wiki:About About]\n| Water: \"a place for experts and everyone else to share and refine their knowledge about water policy and law.\"\n|\n|\n| HD\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,011 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[This is not a MediaWiki site, the count is of ''all'' pages, including stubs. Wiki navigation and tool pages (such as RecentChanges) have been excluded as completely as possible.]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d[Retrieved 2016-11-28]\n| 0,000 edits in 30d
URL\n! Focus/scope\n! Green\n! Act\n! Dev\n! OD\n! Start date;
Launched by\n! License\n! Pages\n|-\n| Climate and Conservation Wiki
climateandconservation.org/mediawiki/\n| Global Climate Change (GCC) / Global Warming and how it relates to and affects the conservation of biodiversity.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 0000; David Wiedenfeld\n| GFDL\n| 0,134\n|-\n| EcoArchWiki
ecoarchwiki.net/\n| Sustainable architecture - European examples\n| G?\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| Envirowiki
wiki.envirowiki.info\n| Environmentalism and social justice (global but with an Australian focus)\n| G\n| A\n|\n|\n| 2006-08-18; User:Naught101\n| GFDL, presumably moving to CC-BY-SA\n| 0,525\n|-\n| Global Warming Art
globalwarmingart.com/\n| 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.\n| G\n| A\n|\n|\n| 2005-11-17; Robert A. Rohde\n| GFDL\n| 0,070\n|-\n| Green Hotels
wiki.smartertravel.com/index.php/Green_Hotels\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| Green Policy 360
greenpolicy360.net/\n| Green policy for global greens\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2011 or earlier; [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Schmidt Steven Schmidt] & [http://web.archive.org/web/20151031171342/http://drupalbydean.com:80/ Dean Myerson]\n|\n| 2,276\n|-\n| My ECO Guide Wiki
people4earth.net/myecoguide/\n| how to enjoy eco-friendly living and take serious action in a balanced way.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2008-07-31; People for Earth\n| CC-BY-SA 3.0\n| 0,239\n|-\n| OSEMidMO
osemidmo.wiki-site.com/\n| Open design appropriate technology; self-sufficiency, living off the grid, related to Factor E Farm.\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0000; group connected to Factor E Farm & the [[Open Source Ecology]] wiki.\n|\n| 0,006\n|-\n| Permaculture.info
permaculture.info\n| Permaculture\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| CC-BY-SA 3.0\n| 0,330\n|-\n| SDWiki
open-sustainability.org/\n| Open methodologies for sustainable business.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2007-12-17; [http://web.archive.org/web/20130717143023/http://www.open-sustainability.org/wiki/User:Sean.mcclowry Sean McClowry]\n| CC-BY\n| 0,082\n|-\n| StreetsWiki
streetswiki.wikispaces.com\n| Livable streets, urban planning.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2007; [https://www.streetsblog.org/ Streetsblog], members of The Open Planning Project\n| CC-BY-SA 3.0\n| 0,299\n|-\n| Technology and Social Action Wiki
otho.cms.shu.ac.uk/pmwiki/\n| Established to foster dialogue and collaboration between activists in social movements, voluntary and community organizations and technology designers.\n|\n| A\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| The Public Health Wiki
ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/publichealth\n| Public Health\n|\n|\n| HD?\n|\n| 2007-06-16; University of Manitoba\n| Copyright held by a university body\n| 0,087\n|-\n| The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
\n| Arts\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| Transition Ideas
peopleandplanet.org/transition-ideas\n| Student-led sustainability projects\n| G\n| A?\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 2,276\n|-\n| WikiPH
wikiph.org\n| [[Public health]]\n|\n|\n| HD\n|\n| 2007-05-10;
http://fr.ekopedia.org/\n|\n| G\n|\n| ID?\n|\n| 2004-07; Jean-Luc Henry\n| Licence Art Libre (Free Art License, FAL)\n| 1,802\n|-\n| Ekopedia
en.ekopedia.org/\n| to define and explain the techniques allowing us to build a better life for us and our environment\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 0000; Jean-Luc\n| FAL/GFDL(dual)\n| 0,170\n|-\n| TipThePlanet
tiptheplanet.com\n| encourages discussion and the generation tips that benefit you and the planet.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2006-09-15;\n| CC-BY-S\n| 0,425\n|-\n| Sustainable Community Action
sca21.wikia.com\n| To link up community and personal action for sustainability worldwide.\n|\n| A\n|\n|\n| 0000; Wikia community\n| GFD\n| 1,639\n|-\n| Wikigoodglobe
wikigoodglobe.org\n| An enviroment and social justice wiki\n| G\n| A\n|\n|\n| 2006-01-24;\n|\n| 0,124\n|-\n| The Sustainable Campuses project
syc-cjs.org/sustainable/tiki-index.php\n| to empower students to lead initiatives on their campuses toward greater social, ecological and economic sustainability\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 0000; Sierra Youth Coalitio\n|\n|\n|-\n| Cloud Forest Institute
cloudforest.org\n| Preparing students to forge a peaceful, sustainable, diverse, healthy, respectful, balanced, equitable, and hopeful future.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2004-08-19; Cloud Forest Institute\n|\n| 0,166\n|-\n| Sustainability Wiki
sustainability-wiki.org\n|\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2008-09-04; Luca de Alfaro & Ian Pye;\n|\n| 0,001\n|-\n| PATA's Sustainable Tourism Wiki
sustainable-tourism.wetpaint.com\n|\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2007-12-20; Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA).\n|\n| 0,005\n|-\n| The \"Good Tourism\" Wiki
good-tourism.com\n| Responsible tourism\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2008-12-18?; David Gillbanks\n|\n| 0,005\n|-\n| 2People
2people.org\n|\n| G\n| A\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| Green Infrastructure Wiki
greeninfrastructurewiki.com\n|\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,011\n|-\n| Sustainable Indiana 2016
sustindy2016.wetpaint.com\n| Sustainability in Indiana, USA.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,009\n|-\n| Playgreen.org
\n|\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| It's Not Easy Being Green Wiki
mrratty.wikidot.com\n|\n| G\n| A\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| Seattle Permaculture Guild
seattlepermacultureguild.org/wiki/\n|\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| Stop Global Warming
helpstopglobalwarming.wetpaint.com/\n|\n| G\n| A\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,001\n|-\n| Global Warming
stopglobalwarming.wetpaint.com/\n| Art about climate change\n|\n| A\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,001\n|-\n| YesMagazine wiki
yesmagazine.org/wiki\n|\n| G\n| A\n| ID?\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,187\n|-\n| Sustainability Wiki
sustainability.wikispot.org\n|\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,020\n|-\n| Sustainapedia Northwest
sustainapedianw.org\n|\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,078\n|-\n| Sustainapedia.com
sustainapedia.com\n|\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,011\n|-\n| Bright Green Living
socialtext.net/brightgreen\n|\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2004-09-13; worldchanging.co\n| CC-BY\n| 0,044\n|-\n| SFBayAreaGreen
sfbayareagreen.wikispaces.com/\n| Green issues, restricted to students of San Jose State University.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2008-10-16;\n| CC-BY-SA 3.0\n| 0,000\n|-\n| CopperWiki
copperwiki.org/\n| Sustainability, consumer info. About - \"gives us choices for living a healthy, useful and conscious life.\"\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 2007-07-09; CopperStrings\n|\n|\n|-\n| Green Museums
greenmuseums.wetpaint.com/\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| Great Lakes Wiki
greatlakeswiki.org/\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| ICT4D.at
wiki.ict4d.at/\n| ICT4D: the Austrian Network for Information and Communication Technologies for Development.\n|\n|\n| ID\n|\n| 2008-12-02;\n| CC-BY-SA 3.0\n| 0,010\n|-\n| ICT4DWiki
ewb.michaelwhyte.net/wiki\n| ICT4D\n|\n|\n| ID\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,150\n|-\n| ClimateNetworkWiki
campusclimatenetwork.org/wiki/\n| campus community members and organizations that have come together to see how education institutions can create solutions to the climate crisis.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 2007-11-19; British Columbia student organizations\n| GFDL\n| 0,257\n|-\n| WaterWiki
waterwiki.net/index.php/Welcome\n| Water\n|\n|\n| HD\n|\n| 2005-08-02; UNDP\n| CC-BY-SA 3.0\n| 2,189\n|-\n| OpenWater Wiki
ungiwg.org/openwater/\n| Laboratory and field analysis of water quality\n|\n|\n| HD\n|\n| 0000; the UNEP GEMS/Water Programme\n|\n|\n|-\n| Water Wiki
water.wikia.com/wiki/\n| Water: \"hydrology, water rights, irrigation and any other topic which relates to water resources.\"\n| G\n|\n| HD\n|\n| 0000; Wikia community\n| GFDL\n| 0,457\n|-\n| Atlanta Water Shortage Wiki
atlantawatershortage.com/wiki/\n| Focus/scope\n|\n|\n| HD\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| argoedwater\n| Focus/scope\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|-\n| Summer School on Global Sustainability\n| Information on courses.\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 0,050\n|-\n| KSToolKit Wiki
\n| Knowledge sharing, especially in international development.\n|\n|\n| ID\n|\n| 2008-02-21; “tjordan3\"\n| CC-BY-SA 3.0 (in footer)\n| 0,220\n|-\n| HurricaneWiki.org
hurricanewiki.org\n| Emergency/disaster management\n|\n|\n| ID, HD\n| OD\n| 2005 or 2004 as Tsunami Help Wiki?, 2008-08-31 as HurricaneWiki; Hurricane Information Center\n| public domain?\n| 0,146\n|-\n| Joint Bioenergy Institute Wiki
http://econ.jbei.org/wiki/\n| Bioenergy\n| G\n|\n|\n|\n| 0000; Lead sponsor, U.S. Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute(JBEI).\n| Non-commercial research use allowed\n| 0,074\n|-\n| openenergymonitor
openenergymonitor.org\n| open source energy monitoring, tutorials on building energy monitors, solar hot water controllers etc\n| G\n| A\n|\n| OD\n| 2009-01; Trystan Lea\n| GNU GPL\n|\n|-\n| Transition Towns Wiki
transitiontowns.org\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n|\n| 1,054\n|}\n\n== International development wikis ==\n\nWikis which are focused on international development rather than sustainability per se, yet to be added include:\n\n* [http://www.demotech.org/pmwiki Demotech]\n\nA list of these wikis including those focused more on international development (e.g. [http://www.akvo.org/wiki Akvopedia], [http://www.demotech.org/pmwiki Demotech],[***Note questions discussed in the Appropedia community regarding maintaining group identity, in terms of a navbar/header that depends on the site the visitor came from; also discussions (on Twitter, between @appropedia and @MarkDilley?) about changing sidebar(?) based on the category being viewed. This requires software hacks?)] 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.\n\nNote 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.\n\n== Collaborative design? ==\n\nThe main focus of most of these wikis is sharing knowledge in some form ''other than design.'' Exceptions include:\n\n* [[Appropedia:About|Appropedia]]\n* [http://www.akvo.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Akvopedia]\n* [http://opensourceecology.org Open Source Ecology] (The Factor E Farm wiki)\n* [http://openenergymonitor.org Open Energy Monitor] Although not quite a wiki yet, it is open for anyone to get involved\n\n(****scroll through)\n\nNon-wikis include:\nProjects with flexibility of input style:\n\n* The [http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/ Open Architecture Network] (OAN), using visual presentation, consistent with traditional methods of architectural design. The site uses an open license, but does not allow editing of other designs, or easily duplicating another project in order to \"fork\" the design.\n\nProjects 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).\n\n* Sam Rose's project... (under construction).\n* Fab Lab. This appears to have great strengths in making prototypes and sharing designs in electronic form to be reproduced elsewhere, as well as for making \"one-off\" objects and very low production run products. It would be presumably be more costly for items that can be mass-produced.\n\nSharing of designs where lack of openness may be a restriction include:\n\n* Make\n* Instructables\n\nThese have some similar challenges to the Open Architecture Network, mentioned above.\n\n=== Effect of merging ===\n\nAt 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:\n\n* A big part of it is that most wikis don't really take off anyway, and many become inactive, merger or not.\n* In some clear cases they become inactive before the merger. In these cases the merger has not helped with getting the participants involved again, in practice.\n\nThat's not to say it isn't a concern, and it needs further analysis.\n\nThe 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.\n\n== Notes ==\n\n\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Green and development wikis are compared on Appropedia, showing how shared knowledge supports sustainability. Learn more today.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Wikis for sustainability]]"}