Collapsathon2024

This wiki belongs to its editors, together we will work to make it great.

What are our goals this Collapsathon?

To flesh out as many articles in the wiki as possible that may be of direct practical use to making communities resilient to environmental and other disasters whereby meeting their basic needs is challenges.

What's the end goal of the Collapsible wiki?

The end goal of the wiki is to be useful to those in need offline, served from tiny computers over WiFi, as a PDF or even a printed book. We start with English, and will translate out into other languages in time. It will be a long process.

Who is this wiki for?

Everyone that cares about the people that comprise their community.

I don't feel comfortable writing whole articles

No problem! Find a topic that interests you that you think needs some work or help, and then research it. Put links in a Link dump section and ideally expand each link out with a summary. That way people that are up for writing whole articles can use your research to do the writing.

I'm not interested in researching but I am a good writer

Great! Take a topic that already has a Link Dump section, look at the links and synthesise into an article.

What software does this wiki use?

We use MediaWiki, the exact same platform as Wikipedia. It is self-hosted on a server at the Hetzner datacenter in Germany.

Article structure and style

Article structure

Introduction

Articles should begin with an introduction explaining how the given topic is relevant to the themes of the Wiki, namely communitarian survivalism and resilience. This is really important. We owe it to our readers to not sidetrack or misguide them. If the topic is about pickling food, explain why pickling has been used as a food preservation strategy for thousands of years and how preserving food in advance of a blackout, or other disaster where refrigeration is not available, is a good idea.

The intro should use the Level 2 heading.

Text body

After this sections directly relevant to the topic would be given Level 3 headings, with sub-sections Level 4, and so on.

Citations

This is a section at the bottom of the page. Actual citations in the article body should be placed at the end of the sentence. They can be added using the <ref>Citation here</ref> tag. A heading Citations should be added to the bottom of the page. Under this heading, all that's needed for the citations to automagically appear is adding the following tag: <references />.

An example of an article doing this is here.

Article style

Writing

Writing should be impersonal, a-temporal and non-geographically centered. For instance, an article shouldn't be written using 'I', 'me', 'mine' or 'ours', nor assume the reader is in the USA or Europe, nor that assume the present year for the reader is 2024. Writing should be in the style of an encyclopedia, where being useful and informative is the primary objective. Evidence should be given in the form of Citations (see above) and attributed quotations. Anecdotes are strongly discouraged, as are stories unless quoted to elucidate a point.

Images

Images should be placed in the page in a step-wise fashion left to right. An example of an article doing this is here. When you add an image and provide a caption it looks like this in the wiki code:

[[File:Kimchi.jpg|thumb|A jar of Kimchi]]

To make that image appear smaller, just set a new width for it. Here we set it to 240 pixels wide. Aspect ratio will be maintained:

[[File:Kimchi.jpg|thumb | A jar of Kimchi | 240px ]]

Images will by default appear to the left. To set an image to the Right, define it like so:

[[File:Kimchi.jpg|thumb | A jar of Kimchi | 240px | right ]]

For everything else please see the Style Guide.