What's this wiki for?
This wiki is used for a number of things.
One purpose is to record NamedPatterns of CivilSociety praxis.
In other words, as members of civil society, we consider that useful knowledge is derived from our experiences of getting things to work, and that others can benefit from our experience by the "rules of thumb" we create, in the first instance, for ourselves.
This website is a nice place for recording elements of such practice, craft, or 'technics'. Technics are recorded in written form as an open series of NamedPatterns, each of which describe a context of forces and their advised resolution (see IntroducingPatterns).
Another purpose is to openly support a common vocabulary of WikiWords within CivilSociety websites, for example websites produced by the AppropriateWebsiteFactory.
Another purpose is to associate and describe people and organisations (see CategoryOrganisation, CategoryPerson).
Another purpose is to provide a resource for the production of AppropriateSoftware (see AppropriateSoftwareLayers).
By now, there may be others purposes...
'Ask yourself: if the page you cite were to be created, would it serve Wiki well as a point of entry in this web of knowledge? -- WardCunningham' -- WardsWiki:WikiIsNotaDictionary
This is a website written by its users. Anyone can change any page or create new pages, but please be polite.
Please read our TextFormattingRules, and then try out your new skills in the WikiWikiSandbox.
If you have not used a wiki before, you may be interested to read WardsWiki:WelcomeVisitors, the original wiki's 'welcome visitors' pages. You may also be interested to read WardsWiki:NewUserPages.
People generally visit every few weeks to check for RecentChanges, and to make changes based on their recent experiences and reflections.
You can see what has been interesting people in RecentChanges.
Topics of interest on the AppropriateCivilSocietyWiki include:
patterns
appropriate software
projects
free software
Other interesting ideas, projects, and organisations:
interesting stuff
organisations
people
other stuff
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