WikiWorld:About
This wiki fuses art, technology and education, to make a website about our planet and its future. We share plans that show the beauty and complexity of how things work. We have fun collaborating to better show "what is", 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 it is a feeder site, where we can be more artful, more technological and more educational. We're not an encyclopaedia. Our pages don't try to cover all the bases. Our pages tell stories. We're a place to have fun with ideas, art and technology.
A lot of the motivation, and some seed content, comes from Wikipedia. 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. How you feel about knowledge is often as important as the knowledge itself. 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 encyclopaedic content can sometimes be heard here. In this we are different from Wikipedia. Sometimes we are wrong, or we have strayed too far from the usual consensus in order to tell the story we want to tell. So please engage brain when reading what is here. We offer vistas and technology, lenses and images for the future. We offer tools for understanding and creating a better future. We also showcase and share some new tools and new ways of making content which we invite others to use too.
How it Works
- Everything here must be licensed on terms that are compatible with Wikipedia, so that content created here can be freely re-used and changed and included in 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.
