Collapsible Systems Wiki:About

The Collapsible Project

The wiki was launched on September 1, 2023 with a commitment to growing a genuinely useful site for preparedness, knowledge-sharing and disaster education around the world that can become a trusted site for knowledge.

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

The project aims to create a 'real' wiki, with useful articles and conforming to a common editorial style, a 'collapsipedia'. For this a domain has 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.

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

Contribution

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.

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.

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.

Terms of Service (ToS)

You can edit, under the expectations below and agreement to the Privacy Policy.

Licensing Agreement

This wiki is licensed under the ‘’’GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 (2008)’’’, which allows anyone to copy, distribute, and modify the content, provided that the same freedoms are preserved in derivative works. This "copyleft" license supports free documentation and open collaboration, especially for educational and reference materials. See the full license text for details.

Editor Agreements

The Collapsible wiki is a collaborative, volunteer-driven archive focused on preparedness and disaster resilience. This is a third-party wiki using MediaWiki software and administered by the Collapsible admins and is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

Please note: We do not sell your data or share it with third parties. However, your contributions are publicly visible and permanently associated with your username or IP address in the page history. By contributing to this wiki, you agree to publish your edits under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

By using this wiki, you agree to the following terms:

• Share accurate and relevant information.
• Record of your contributions will be public and permanent.
• Contributions will be edited by the community. * Your edits will be edited. (e.g., edits may be edited or removed, you grant permission to relicense under the ‘’’GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 (2008)’’
• Pages may be edited or removed by administrators at their discretion.
• Do not post sensitive personal information, about yourself or others.
• Strictly no spam, misinformation, or disinformation.
• This wiki may contain external links or embedded materials. Please exercise caution when navigating to outside sources.
• The wiki accords with Wikimedia's Universal Code of Conduct.
• Harassment and abusive content will not be tolerated.
• If you do not agree with the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, you may not use this wiki.