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'This wiki started when a few bureaucrats and scientists realized that they were sitting on knowledge that no one could find, that the value of information technology is limited when it is controlled, and that people all over the place care about and work for ecosystem resilience, but don't know eachother.

This site provides free document storage, collaborative workspaces, and just enough structure so that we can find eachothers work. It is a virtual collective scrapbook that anyone can edit at anytime with text, images, video, and documents. If you can subscribe to a social contract and are working on ecosystems, we'd like you to join us.

How do I start?

There is an introduction that helps you be a wiki user. If you already know about wiki, than create a user account.

Organization and Goals

This wiki aims to provide the following services:

Improve document sharing among diverse partners
Improve the synthesis of knowledge on important topics among multiple efforts and workgroups
Increase the ease of informal (or formal) peer review
Improve the accessability of current ecosystem science to interested citizens
Improve network functions among workgroups working in similar systems
Provide a foundation for a shared adaptive management for puget sound restoration and protection

What is a 'Wiki'?

A Wiki is a dynamic and cross-linked website, where content can be created and edited instantly at anytime. Users, with a name, password, and e-mail address, can upload documents and images and author and edit web pages. Its easy to create links between pages and off-site.

Who's Wiki is This?

This site is hosted by Western Washington University, and is administered and maintained by a cooperative of individuals working for academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in improving our ability to provide public service. A volunteer moderator team administers the site in accordance with a social contract, to which all members adhere. Text content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

Why a new web-based gadget!

There are a wide range of other web-based resources out there. This platform is intended to complement those efforts, by creating a place where we can integrate and interpret many different sources of knowledge. This wiki is a place where you can put information so that you, and others, can find it again. Here information transfer is not limited to any particular agenda. You ability to quickly transfer information is only limited by our social contract, legal contraints, and our ability to sustain modest hosting costs.

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-'''The Nearshore Wiki is a user created website, with [[structure|five kinds of pages]], where we synthesize knowledge to improve conservation [[efforts]].'''
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+'''This wiki started when a few bureaucrats and scientists realized that they were sitting on knowledge that no one could find, that the value of information technology is limited when it is controlled, and that people all over the place care about and work for ecosystem resilience, but don't know eachother.''
-'''This site provides free document storage, and workspaces for collaborative development of text and graphics.  People working in similar [[system|kinds of places]], or studying the same [[:category:attribute|attributes]] of those systems, can learn about each other, and build a shared and transparent information base.'''
+'''This site provides free document storage, collaborative workspaces, and just enough structure so that we can find eachothers work.  It is a virtual collective scrapbook that anyone can edit at anytime with text, images, video, and documents.  If you can subscribe to a [[social contract]] and are working on ecosystems, we'd like you to join us.'''
 ===How do I start?===
-This site is built by us for us.  You add information, evidence, or theories in an existing page, or a new page you create.  By [[categorizing]] and [[linking]] a page we associate it with other pages and make it easier for others to find it.  To do this well requires that you learn a few things:
+There is an [[introduction]] that helps you be a wiki user.  If you already know about wiki, than [[How to create a user account|create a user account]].
-#Understand the [[anatomy of a page]].
-#Learn a little about [[wiki practice]] including the use of [[markup tutorial|wiki markup code]].
-#Make sure you understand what we are trying to do here in terms of our [[vision]] and our [[social contract]].
-#Know something about our [[:category:structure|how we use different kinds of pages to organize information]].
-#[[Join us]] by getting a user account, and identifying yourself.
 ===Organization and Goals===
-Pages are either associated with [[places]] or using a hierarchey of [[systems]], [[attributes]], and predictive abilities that we call objectives.  [[Places]] are organized around specific spatial units that we call [[sites]], based on [[PSNERP]] process units, but you can also create pages for your own definition of [[:category:place|place]].  If you want to report on your [[workgroup]], a particular [[effort]], or a particular [[resource]] or [[document]] we have pages for those as well.
-You can jump to a list of existing pages of a particular type from the navigation menu on the left.  To know about the page you are in, look for a colored box in the top right corner.
 This wiki aims to provide the following services:
 *'''Improve [[document]] sharing among diverse partners
-*'''Improve the synthesis of knowledge on important [[system]] [[attributes]] among multiple [[efforts]] and [[workgroups]]
+*'''Improve the synthesis of knowledge on important [[topics]] among multiple [[efforts]] and [[workgroups]]
 *'''Increase the ease of informal (or formal) peer review
 *'''Improve the accessability of current ecosystem science to interested citizens
 *'''Improve [[network functions]] among [[workgroups]] working in similar [[systems]]
-*'''Provide a foundation for a shared [[adaptive management strategy]] for puget sound restoration and protection
+*'''Provide a foundation for a shared [[adaptive management]] for puget sound restoration and protection
-===What is a 'Wiki'===
+===What is a 'Wiki'?===
-A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wiki] is a dynamic and cross-linked website, where content can be created and edited instantly at anytime. Users, with a name, password, and e-mail address, can upload documents and images and author and edit web pages.  A [[linking|number of features]] facilitate linking between pages and off-site.
+A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wiki] is a dynamic and cross-linked website, where content can be created and edited instantly at anytime. Users, with a name, password, and e-mail address, can upload documents and images and author and edit web pages.  Its easy to create [[linking|links]] between pages and off-site.
 ===Who's Wiki is This?===
-This site is hosted by Western Washington University, and is administered and maintained by a cooperative of individuals working for academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in improving our ability to provide public service.  A volunteer [[moderator team]] administers the site in accordance with a [[social contract]], to which all members adhere.  Content is published under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License].  Feel free to investigate the[[:category:organization|the current organization of our network]] and the [[structure]] of this wiki.
+This site is hosted by Western Washington University, and is administered and maintained by a cooperative of individuals working for academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in improving our ability to provide public service.  A volunteer [[moderator team]] administers the site in accordance with a [[social contract]], to which all members adhere.  Text content is published under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License].
-===Participating in the Wiki===
-Participation is encouraged by all individuals who are willing to adhere to our [[social contract]] and are actively involved in observation or synthesis of ecosystem-centered knowledge or project management in the greater [[Salish Sea]] ecosystem.  It is very easy to [[join us]] by getting a user account and getting started.
+===Why a new web-based gadget!===
-There are a wide range of other web-based [[resources]] out there.  This platform is intended to complement those efforts, by creating a dynamic hub that brings us together, while supporting a level of information sharing that makes ecosystem science more accessable and integrated.  This wiki is a place where you can put information so that you, and others, can find it again.
+There are a wide range of other web-based [[resources]] out there.  This platform is intended to complement those efforts, by creating a place where we can integrate and interpret many different sources of knowledge.  This wiki is a place where you can put information so that you, and others, can find it again.  Here information transfer is not limited to any particular agenda.  You ability to quickly transfer information is only limited by our [[social contract]], legal contraints, and our ability to sustain modest hosting costs.