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'''Veganwiki.info''': community project to create the biggest resource for and by vegans and vegetarians under a free license.
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''Rule #1: we try to avoid setting up rules''
''Rule #1: we try to avoid setting up rules''
===Community of the Communities===
* We wanna become your resource to share your Vegan ideas and content, let us know and become an active editor on Veganwiki.


===Spirit of cooperation===
===Spirit of cooperation===
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===not decided yet===
===not decided yet===
* We don't want advertising or affiliate marketing. We would only accept it in case money would be needed and other forms of fund-raising are not succeeding.
* We don't want advertising or affiliate marketing. We would only accept it in case money would be needed and other forms of fund-raising are not succeeding.


== Database dumps==
== Database dumps==

Revision as of 14:56, 12 September 2015

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Veganwiki is a collaborative project to gather information useful for vegans and wannavegans (such as e.g. vegetarians).

It was started in 2013 by Guaka (talk) and some friends.

Guaka (talk) felt the need for a community wiki related to veganism. It does not want to compete with existing vegan and vegetarian websites.

Guidelines / Ideas / Concepts we like here

Rule #1: we try to avoid setting up rules

Community of the Communities

  • We wanna become your resource to share your Vegan ideas and content, let us know and become an active editor on Veganwiki.


Spirit of cooperation

  • Most action just happens - someone has an idea, goes ahead and does it.
  • In case there's doubt if all veganwiki editors would be happy with an action: we want a democratic work environment, where we first try to decide by consensus.
  • We encourage active member participation and try to keep convivial work environments
    • Try to stay friendly, e.g. not "your stuff sucks so I deleted it", but "maybe you could try to do it like this or that the next time?".
  • Non-denominational which means that there is no discussion about religious views here

Transparency

  • As much communication and information as possible is and will be available on the internet. This excludes information such as server passwords, but it goes as far as what software and extensions are running on Veganwiki, and naturally a history of all edits ever made.
  • Many decisions are made and discussed in wikipages.

Free software

Open data

  • We want to keep database dumps available at all times.
  • We want to support open formats and standards, such as microformats.

Free license

International

  • Given enough interest, people should be allowed to set up their own language version.

Not for profit

  • Veganwiki costs us almost nothing, so we don't need money to run it and it's unlikely we would need money in the future.
  • Veganwiki is officially owned by Guaka (talk) but if it reaches a critical mass it makes sense to transfer ownership to an official organisation.
  • Nonprofit organization (NPO) we are NPO like, but we don't believe in money, we're not a 501(c)_organization
  • Pay what you want, yes, it's not regulated yet, but Guaka should be re-warded with dedication for the community, feel free to pay what you want!


not decided yet

  • We don't want advertising or affiliate marketing. We would only accept it in case money would be needed and other forms of fund-raising are not succeeding.

Database dumps

Veganwiki database dumps should be available at http://veganwiki.info/files/vegan/dumps/

As of December 2013 the dump script hasn't been running for a while but nudge Guaka (talk) and it will be fixed!


Language support

We do not just want to have Veganwiki in English. If there's enough interest we can set up specific wikis in other languages as well. For now, it's okay if you write here in other languages, we'll just mark them as such.

There's already a German language at de.veganwiki.org. If you want to write in German this could be a good place. Or not, please report back. There's no clear content license unfortunately.

Related projects

We're open for collaboration, especially with projects that use the same Creative Commons ShareAlike Attribution license. Many of the folks here are also active on Trashwiki, Hitchwiki and BeWelcome

Wikis

"Private" initiatives we support

Other sites

  • Happycow extended information but not always up-to-date, also some slightly annoying ads, especially on mobile and sometimes even advertising places that serve meat.

We're writing Veganwiki from a vegan point of view.

See also