The Big Picture

The Salish Sea Restoration Platform is a resource for restoration professionals and advocates that lets each of us easily manage a collection of resources that we can access and share with our colleagues. All resources are comingled, organized by Page Type and Categories, and using a single filing system, so any user can find what they are looking for. Our work strengthens our shared collections.

Exploring The Platform

There are two ways to find things on the platform: browsing and searching. At any time, you can click on the logo in the top left and return to the home page, there are many useful links on the home page.

Browsing

One way to start browsing is to start with a particular Page Type.

Workgroup

Effort

Product

Place

Topic

The next best way to browse is the explore Architecture and Content Pages. These pages organize information in the platform.

Academic Institutions • Adaptive Management • Admiralty Inlet • Advocacy • Agriculture • Anthropogenic Topics • Anthropogenic Topics (The Anthropocene) • Arts and Crafts • Beaches • Biodiversity • Biota • Catchment Scale • Climate • Climate Change • Comox Coast • Conifer Canopy • Conservation Lands • Coordination • Deciduous Canopy • Discovery Islands • East Sound • Education • Eelgrass • Effects of River Delta Restoration on Salmon Populations • Embayments • Federal Agencies • Floodplain Restoration • Floodplains • Flora • Forestry • Fraser Lowlands • Governments • Green Infrastructure • Gulf Islands • Headlands • Headwaters • Hood Canal • Industrial Land Use • Integrated Ecosystem Management • Landforms • Legislation • Lessons • Lowland Watersheds • Monitoring • Non-Institutional • Patch Scale • Planning • Protection • Puget Sound Ecosystem Funding • Qualicum Coast • Regional Districts • Regions • Regulation • Research • Restoration • River Delta Restoration and Hydrodynamics • River Delta Use By Salmon • River Deltas • Rural Land Use • Salmon Recovery • San Juan Islands • Sea Level Rise • Sites • Social Change • Socioeconomics • South Puget Sound • South Vancouver Island • Stormwater • Strait of Juan de Fuca • Sunshine Coast • The Private Sector • Transportation Networks • US Federal Government • United States Law • Vegetation and Revegetation • Water Management • Watershed Planning • West Sound • Whidbey Basin • Whidbey Basin Estuary Restoration Monitoring • Youth

Once you find a page, you can find similar pages by clicking on a category link in the page footer.

Learn more about Platform Architecture

Searching

The search box in the top left will show you all the pages that start with any letters you start typing. Click the magnifying glass, and you'll be taken to a search results page, that gives you more advanced search options. There are also many capabilities inherent to the CirrusSearch extension, such as:

typing "insource:" before a search string allows you to search the Wiki Markup of pages.
Use of quotes allows searching for text strings.
Use of asterisk for wild-card searches

How We Operate

This platform is a free tool for helping us organize and synthesize knowledge. It’s an infinite shared filing cabinet. It’s an interactive map of our evolving social-ecological system. Each page contains a very brief synthesis, including links and documents.

The purpose of the wiki is not to compose and edit authoritative web articles (check out the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound for example) but to organize existing scattered information, and to archive bits of knowledge that might otherwise be lost. Our goal is collective information management.

You can become an editor and contribute to this resources. Use a Platform Style Guide to make our work more coherent. This style guide revolves around a system of Page Types. These guiding principles reflect our working and evolving Theory of Knowledge.

The Platform Technical Design gives us function and resilience at a minimum cost. Platform Governance is consent-based among working partners, and we are looking for partners. Our ongoing work is documented on the Development Log. Editors consent to operating under a Social Contract.

Useful Links

Create a New User Account describes the process of becoming an editor, and New Editor Resources sets you up for success.
The Style Guide helps you edit pages well.
Create a New Page is a good place to start once you understand Page Types and want to dive in.
The Wiki Markup Tutorial is for users that want to become power editors (using the "edit source" tab), and is complemented by Formatting Templates and Dynamic Page Lists and The Credit Box.
Page Types explains how we organize information.
The Social Contract defines our agreements as editors, while Governance describes the partners managing the wiki and how we make decisions.

Here is a 30m presentation describing our vision for peer-to-peer learning in ecosystem stewardship: