WikiWorld:About

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 with a long term goal to make 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. Our pages tell stories. 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.

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.