Designing The Permaculture Wiki
How do we design this Permaculture Wiki to be an effective and useful resource for the international permaculture community?
How should it be structured?
How do we publicise (or market) it to the wider permaculture community?
How do we get people to join in and make it work?
How will we deal with issues such as vandalism or ensuring consensus?
Add your comments and suggestions here!
1. Recommend we have a "Glossary". As term difinitions are added they are linked to in the glossary (for example: engineered wetlands, guilds, catchments, watershed, n-fixers, etc).
2. Perhaps each page which is a term that requires a definition should get a first section with "Description", after which other items like "Examples" or "Related Information"...
3. If it is our goal that we are outreaching to folks perhaps unfamiliar with PC we should at least from the starting page, try to give an overview, and as someone clicks through, they can guide themselves to more detailed information. Of course part of what makes wikis nice is the compete interlinking possible, but we should start perhaps from a slightly ordered fashion. Thus, say we want to start from 10 main areas...what are they?
(mIEKAL here) While I agree that it might be nice to formalize a design tree, to me the beauty of a wiki is that it organizes itself as you use the information. Personally Im not interested in another version of the Designer's manual because that info already exists as such. My interests are about personal input from as many users as possible about the topics, observations, ideas that are closest to them. Information with a spin on it. Original, unique, idiosyncratic.
(BK again) Yeah, I don't want to get to stuffy here. Lets just keep adding info to this, though at somepoint we may want to sort it out some....and I'd kinda like to make it understandable to newbies. So if there a PC term you use in something or idea thats the average joe would conprehend, "wink" is with [ ] so folks can define some of the terms..., try to
4. The name is not set in stone yet, but the mortor is harding. What should this wiki be called?
Suggestions:
OpenPermaculture --BK
My vote is InteractivePermacultureNetworkWiki? --mIEKAL
Not "The Permaculture Wiki" Perhaps A Permaculture Wiki --LL posted by BK
5. I think it would be most useful for people to tag contributions with their name & initials & have that link to a signature page which could detail site information, interests, projects, wants etc.
"The Ecology of Memes"

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