The Big Picture
Introduction Pages[edit]
- Architecture and Content Pages
- Categories
- Content Templates
- Create a New User Account
- Dynamic Page Lists
- Flagging Pages for Style Deviation
- Formatting Templates
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Governance
- New Editor Resources
- Page Types
- Sandbox
- Sign Up For an Introductory Workshop
- Social Contract
- Style Guide
- Suggestions for Public Servants
- The Credit Box
- Theory of Knowledge
- Video Tutorials
- Welcome to Salish Sea Restoration
- Wiki Markup Tutorial
See Technical Pages
Also see Style Guide or Social Contract.
The Salish Sea Restoration Platform is peer-to-peer knowledge sharing resource for ecosystem stewards. All resources are comingled, organized by Page Type and Categories so any user can find what they are looking for. Our contributions strengthen a shared collection, resulting in a map of the social-ecological systems in which we work.
Exploring The Platform
There are two ways to find things on the platform: browsing or 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.
The next best way to browse is the explore Architecture and Content Pages. These pages organize information in the platform.
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:
- Use of quotes allows searching for text strings.
- Use of asterisk for wild-card searches
- Typing "insource:" before a search string allows you to search the Wiki Markup of pages.
- More sophisticated tools let you create Dynamic Page Lists embedded in pages that automatically update! For example the list of pages above is dynamically refreshed.
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 stewardship 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 open knowledge 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.
The navigation menu on the left is always available, and includes three tabs:
- Menu - has a link back to this page, five menus that introduce the five Page Types. The Editor Resources tab offers many important pages that are part of the Introduction Pages (see the info box for a list of all Introduction Pages).
- TOC - displays a table of contents, that provides a list of headers that is useful for long pages.
- Personal - gives links to your user profile, or links to create a user profile.
Here is a 30m presentation describing our vision for peer-to-peer learning in ecosystem stewardship:
