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The wiki fuses art, technology and education, to create a website about our planet and its future.  We share plans that show how things work.  We share plans to make things work better.  We collaborate on improving the planetary plans.   
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This wiki fuses art, technology and education, to make a website about our planet and its future.  We share plans that show how things work.  We have fun collaborating on making the important things on this planet work better
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This is both a tribute site to the awesome work done at Wikipedia, and a feeder site, where we can be more artful, more technological and more educational.  We're not an encyclopediaWe're a place to have fun with ideas, art and technology.
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Like trout swimming up river, some of what we put together here will find its way back to Wikipedia.
  
 
==Topics==
 
==Topics==
  
Climate, Ocean Currents, The Whole World, on down to the molecular and the fundamental principles on which things are built. 
 
  
 
===Natural World===
 
===Natural World===
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==Knowledge Structure==
 
==Knowledge Structure==
  
On this site, good explanations take centre stage.  Information is not enough.  Emotion and understanding are needed too.  It should be fun to be a learner here.  It should be fun to share understanding.  It should be satisfying to collaborate.
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On this site, good explanations take centre stage.  Information is not enough.  Emotion and understanding are needed too.  Learning, sharing, understanding are all mixed in with fun here.  It's [[Hard Fun (Papert)|hard fun]], in the Seymour Papert sense.
  
Individual voices, rather than just neutral encyclopedic content can sometimes be heard here.  We offer vistas and technology, lenses and images for the future.  We offer tools for understanding and creating a better future.  We showcase some new tools and new ways of making content. We hope some of what we do here will feed on into Wikipedia, helping Wikipedia have more planetary awareness too. 
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Individual voices, rather than just neutral encyclopedic content can sometimes be heard here.  We offer vistas and technology, lenses and images for the future.  We offer tools for understanding and creating a better future.  We showcase some new tools and new ways of making content.  
  
 
==How it Works==
 
==How it Works==

Revision as of 22:43, 2 September 2020

This wiki fuses art, technology and education, to make a website about our planet and its future. We share plans that show how things work. We have fun collaborating on making the important things on this planet work better.

This is both a tribute site to the awesome work done at Wikipedia, and a feeder site, where we can be more artful, more technological and more educational. We're not an encyclopedia. We're a place to have fun with ideas, art and technology.

Like trout swimming up river, some of what we put together here will find its way back to Wikipedia.

Topics

Natural World





World of Physics



World of Ideas



Other Worlds



Knowledge Structure

On this site, good explanations take centre stage. Information is not enough. Emotion and understanding are needed too. Learning, sharing, understanding are all mixed in with fun here. It's hard fun, in the Seymour Papert sense.

Individual voices, rather than just neutral encyclopedic content can sometimes be heard here. We offer vistas and technology, lenses and images for the future. We offer tools for understanding and creating a better future. We showcase some new tools and new ways of making content.

How it Works

  • Everything here must be licensed on terms that are compatible with Wikipedia, so that content created here can be freely used on Wikipedia itself.
  • Wikiworld makes extensive use of the Wikidiagrams mediwiki extension, to make data driven, interactive diagrams.
  • Read about Good Article and Featured Article status to understand what we aim for.