About the wiki

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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 controlling information flow usually limits public service value, and that people all over the place care about and work for ecosystem resilience, but don't know each other!

This site provides free document storage, collaborative workspaces, and just enough structure so that we can find each others 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.