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This site provides free document storage, collaborative work spaces, and just enough structure so that we can find things.  It is a virtual collective scrapbook that anyone can edit with text, images, video, and documents.  If you subscribe to our [[social contract]] and are working on ecosystems, we'd like you to share your information.
This site provides free document storage, collaborative work spaces, and just enough structure so that we can find things.  It is a virtual collective scrapbook that anyone can edit with text, images, video, and documents.  If you subscribe to our [[social contract]] and are working on ecosystems, we'd like you to share your information.
===How do I start?===
There is an [[introduction]] that helps you be a wiki user.  If you already know all about wikis, than [[create a user account]].


===Organization and Goals===
===Organization and Goals===

Revision as of 20:07, 24 April 2013

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This wiki started when a few bureaucrats and scientists realized that they were collecting knowledge that no one could find, that controlling the flow of information limits the value of information, and that people all over are working on ecosystem restoration but don't know about each others work!

This site provides free document storage, collaborative work spaces, and just enough structure so that we can find things. It is a virtual collective scrapbook that anyone can edit with text, images, video, and documents. If you subscribe to our social contract and are working on ecosystems, we'd like you to share your information.

Organization and Goals

This wiki aims to provide the following services:

  • Improve document sharing among diverse partners
  • Accelerate the synthesis of knowledge on important topics among multiple efforts and workgroups
  • Increase the opportunity for and efficiency of peer review
  • Improve the accessibility of current scientific evidence about ecosystems
  • Improve networking among workgroups working in similar ecosystems
  • Provide a foundation for decentralized adaptive management of Puget Sound restoration

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 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 volunteers working for academic, governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in improving our ability to provide public service. A 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. Our primary support has been provided by the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program to help fulfill its goal of increasing learning through restoration.

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 constraints, and our ability to sustain modest hosting costs.