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This wiki started when a few of us realized that we had information that no one else could find, that the public value of information depends on its free flow, 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 you can find things again. It is designed to be organic and self-organizing. It is a virtual shared scrapbook that you 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 join us.

Our Goals

By engaging and training people to use this forum, we hope to:

Improve document sharing
Accelerate the synthesis of evidence
Support increased peer review
Increase collaboration.
Realize adaptive management in Puget Sound restoration

What is a Wiki?

A Wiki is shared website. Each user can create and edit pages. Each page has a unique title, and can contain text, images, links to files, or embedded video. Pages are organized into categories. Our pages in this wiki are either about components of our ecosystem (like watersheds), or they are about the organizations, activities and products of our human systems.

Who's Wiki is This?

This site is 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.

Not Another Web 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 share, integrate, and interpret different sources of information together. This wiki is a place where you can put information so that you, and others, can find it again. Information transfer is not limited to a particular agenda or opinion. You ability to quickly transfer information is only limited by our social contract, legal constraints, and our ability to sustain modest hosting costs.

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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!'''
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+<big>'''This wiki started when a few of us realized that we had information that no one else could find, that the public value of information depends on its free flow, and that many people working for ecosystem restoration don't know about each others work.'''</big>
-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 storage and sharing of documents and images, collaborative work spaces, and just enough structure so you can find things again.  It is designed to be organic and self-organizing.  It is a virtual shared scrapbook that you can edit with text, images, video, and documents.  If you subscribe to our <big>'''[[social contract]]'''</big> and are working on ecosystem restoration, we'd like you to join us.
+|style="width:55%; vertical-align:top; padding:0px 20px;"|
-===How do I start?===
+===[[Wiki goals|Our Goals]]===
-There is an [[introduction]] that helps you be a wiki user.  If you already know all about wikis, than [[create a user account]].
+By engaging and training people to use this forum, we hope to:
+<big>
-===Organization and Goals===
+*Improve '''[[wiki goals|document sharing]]'''
-This wiki aims to provide the following services:
+*Accelerate the '''[[wiki goals|synthesis of evidence]]'''
+*Support increased '''[[wiki goals|peer review]]'''
-*Improve [[document]] sharing among diverse partners
+*'''[[wiki goals|Increase collaboration]]'''.
-*Accelerate the synthesis of knowledge on important [[topics]] among multiple [[efforts]] and [[workgroups]]
+*Realize '''[[wiki goals|adaptive management]]''' in Puget Sound restoration
-*Increase the opportunity for and efficiency of peer review
+|}
-*Improve the accessibility of current scientific evidence about ecosystems
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-*Improve networking among [[workgroups]] working in similar [[ecosystems]]
+|style="width:50%; vertical-align:top;"|
-*Provide a foundation for decentralized [[adaptive management]] of Puget Sound restoration
+===What is a Wiki?===
+A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wiki] is shared website.  Each user can create and edit pages.  Each page has a unique title, and can contain text, images, links to files, or embedded video.  Pages are organized into [[categories]].  Our pages in this wiki are either about components of our [[ecosystem]] (like watersheds), or they are about the organizations, activities and products of our [[human system]]s.
-===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 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 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 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 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.
+This site is 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 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 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!===
+===Not Another Web 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.
+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 share, integrate, and interpret different sources of information together.  This wiki is a place where you can put information so that you, and others, can find it again.  Information transfer is not limited to a particular agenda or opinion.  You ability to quickly transfer information is only limited by our [[social contract]], legal constraints, and our ability to sustain modest hosting costs.
+|style="vertical-align:top; padding-left:40px;"|
+[[File:Ecosystem sites port susan.png|right|500px|A map of ecosystem sites surrounding Port Susan, with deltas in light green, distinct beach systems in gold, intersected by embayments in dark green, with light blue floodplains fed by streams, and dark blue watersheds]]
+|}