About the wiki

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 many people working for ecosystem restoration don't know about each others work!

This site provides free storage and sharing of documents and images, collaborative work spaces, and just enough structure so we can find things again. 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 ecosystem restoration, we'd like you to share your information.

Goals

This wiki aims to provide the following services:

• Improve document sharing among diverse partners
• Accelerate the synthesis of evidence on important topics among multiple efforts and workgroups
• Increase the opportunity for efficient peer review
• Increase collaboration among workgroups working in similar ecosystems
• Provide a mechanism 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. Pages are organized in categories, and all content is subject to global search.

Who's Wiki is This?

This site is hosted by Western Washington University, and is currently a project of the Huxley Spatial Institute. 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. Our primary support has been provided by the Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program to help fulfill its goal of increasing learning through restoration. Our current operating costs run around $1500/year.

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 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.