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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.

''- African proverb''

This wiki exists as a collaborative notepad to collect and organise content for the Collapsible project, harvested by members of the Mastodon instance at [https://collapsible.systems Collapsible.Systems]. 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, able to be served wirelessly (WLAN, single cell base station, packet radio) and over Ethernet from small low powered computers.

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.

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

* [[Style_guide|Style guide]]

Consult the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for help with using the wiki software.  

As for the rest of the wiki, it's all open to editors in accordance with the same [https://collapsible.systems/about rules of the Mastodon instance].

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.

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?).

Please see [[Style guide|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). New pages can be created by typing the name of a non-existant page, or using the below form:

== Getting started ==

* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]

* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]