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The Collapsible Project

The goal of this project is to gather strategies, skills, disciplines, technologies, ideas, designs and critical thought in an effort to help prepare communities big and small for a time of great upheaval, an era of collapses (plural). It is not a submission to 'The Collapse' and nor does it seek to romanticise an end times. Within this frame, individual-centered survivalist and prepper cultures are not encouraged, while we identify that both hold much that may be of use to communities facing tough times.

In contributing to this wiki you:

• identify that we face not some future Collapse, but are already in the midst of multiple converging collapses.
• recognise that the climate and extinction crises are due to the stresses our growth-addicted civilisation has placed on the Planet, and with that comes consequences for all alive.
• understand that species extinction and a changed climate can not be undone, that we are already locked in for decades of consequences regardless of any mitigating steps made today.
• understand that many communities are already enduring significant and sudden changes, and that we have much to learn from them.
• believe that openly discussing and addressing the challenges we face is not 'negative', nor pessimistic, but essential to overcoming them.
• understand that environmental defense and biome conservation today is crucial for our survival tomorrow.
• recognise that socio-political and geo-political tensions are both expressions and major drivers within collapse.
• recognise that true resilience means togetherness, and that strong communities are built atop a commitment to inclusivity.
• honestly think tardigrades are amazing, not only because they are collapsible.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together

- Probably an African proverb

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About this wiki

This wiki exists as a collaborative notepad to collect and organise content for the Collapsible project, with a social media tentacle at the Mastodon instance at Collapsible.Systems. It was launched on September 1, 2023. We are aiming to create a 'real' wiki, with useful articles and conforming to a common editorial style, a 'collapsipedia'. For this a domain has already been registered.

The wiki will be built primarily as an online archive, but with offline networking applications in mind. A core outcome target is for the entire wiki to be served wirelessly (WLAN, single cell base station, packet radio) and over Ethernet from small low powered computers. PDF, e-pub and print-on-demand outcomes will also be explored.

Unlike other wikis that solely focus on sustainability or lone prepping, the Collapsible Wiki widens its scope to a holistic view on resilience, from organisational systems to disaster preparedness, radio communications, 'permacomputing', medicine and climate resilient cropping.

This work will be done in English, translated into other languages where translators are available.

For the time being the priority is to gather all the external resources we can into one place (this wiki), using our Mastodon community as a sort of knowledge harvester.

Categories

This section is primarily here for mobile users, so they can reach the category list without the sidebar.

• Infrastructure
• Food
• Health
• Preparedness
• Environment
• Community
• Thought
• Linkdump
• Style guide

Contributing

Consult the User's Guide for help with using the wiki software. If you want to practice your wiki editing chops, try the Sandpit.

Please note that Main Page is protected, as we need to communicate the basics here, and ensure everything is clear. If you have some suggestions, please add them in the Discussion tab for this page.

As for the rest of the wiki, it's all open to editors in accordance with the same rules of the Mastodon instance.

This wiki belongs to those that contribute to it.

Scope

Rather than write detailed HOWTOs or get into extreme detail, the wiki should aim to provide helpful overviews to raise literacy, seed confidence, and get folk started on their preparation projects.

The initial goal however is just to collect as many helpful resources here as possible for each section. That process can be really rough for now. If you just have links and don't know where to put them, just give them a quick title/descrip and drop them in the Link Dump. That said, enthusiastic editors should feel free to flesh out articles and/or write up detailed notes, creating pages as needed.

Before creating a new page, and for each contribution, editors are encouraged to check their entries for Utility (is the information useful, can it be applied?), Relevance (does it speak to the Collapsible frame?), Inclusivity (does it assume a particular audience, leaving out others?), Uniqueness (can it be found elsewhere in the wiki?), Accessibility (can it be understood without prior knowledge, or with knowledge provided in situ?) and Region (does it assume a particular region to have relevance?).

Style

Please see this attempt at a style guide before creating your first page. Rather than creating pages in the structure Category/Page, just create a new page, take note of it, and link to it under the relevant section (click on the Link symbol in the editor and enter the Page title).

Create a new page

New pages can be created by typing the name of a non-existent page after the index.php/ in URL bar, or using the below form:

 

If you want to create a page directly in the URL bar whose name has spaces, for instance a page titled Irrigation systems, you can use underscores to reference spaces, like so:

wiki.collapsible.systems/w/index.php/Irrigation_systems