About the Seasteading Wiki
Basic
This is a wiki page for The Seasteading Institute. It is meant to collect and organize community-generated information. Ideas about how to use it:
- Collecting data on availability and pricing of things like generators, scrap, etc.
- Gathering Proposals
- Gathering information
Some things that don't belong here:
- Discussion (use the forums instead)
- Duplicated information in the seasteading book. Please link to it instead.
Wikis tend to get disorganized, so please feel free to re-organize and re-arrange when needed - organizing information can be just as useful as adding it!
Please use Categories whenever possible! Categories allow for auto-generated indexes of pages on a specific topic, like designs which use spars: Category:Spar.
Note
This wiki is our first experiment with using a "standard" technology (MediaWiki) rather than doing everything within Drupal, which powers seasteading.org. Feel free to comment on this choice here.
Advantages:
- Quick & easy (thanks Joep!)
- Separate servers means less DB load, less security issues
- Clear separation between published and community content
Disadvantages:
- Accounts are not unified (although this may be fixable)
- The theme/look is different
- There is debate over whether Drupal w/ a WYSIWYG editor makes a better wiki than MediaWiki.