Mailing List Archive: GreenZones.org

GreenZones.org

Nov 11, 2004, 12:35 PM

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Dear MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org ,

We are in the very beginning stages of building our own Non-Profit
organization to help bring all green information into one centralized
location. Our goal is to make it easy for the average person to
understand how to be greener in their own lives and how their decisions
effect the world we all live in.

We are working towards this goal by developing GreenZones and
GreenZones.org.
GreenZones will be the physical Zones throughout the world, where
people can come and experience green living and green ideas.
GreenZones.org will be the central location of all green information,
streaming shows, education and communities.

One of the sections within GreenZones.org is called G.Knowledge. The
collective brain for the entire world on Green Technologies, ideas,
information, news, and more. The goal is to use this information to
help protect the planet and improve everyones quality of life on the
planet.

Wikipedia's engine is exactly the same thing but for a much broader
subjects. We would like to build in Wikipedia-Green into
GreenZones.org.

Because we are in such an early stage of development, we have no
technical staff to run the servers or to install / maintain Wikimedia
engine. We currently host with Spymac, which is running on Linux
servers.

Would anyone be interested in helping us build Wiki into our site
GreenZones.org?

Like the other Wiki sites, we would like the Green Version to be
connected to the larger Wiki community to make sure all the information
and content is available to everyone, everywhere in the world. But at
the same time, focus our content from our users to make it easy to
learn about everything green.

Please visit our Beta Site: http://greenzones.org
or go straight to the G.Knowledge demo page:
http://www.greenzones.org/knowledge/index.html

Thank you for any and all help you maybe able to provide.
Christopher Adjani
christopher@greenzones.org

Christopher Adjani - GreenZones.org
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Re: GreenZones.org [ In reply to ]

hashar at altern

Nov 12, 2004, 2:39 PM

Post #2 of 3 (562 views)

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Christopher Adjani wrote:
<snip introduction>

> Wikipedia's engine is exactly the same thing but for a much broader
> subjects. We would like to build in Wikipedia-Green into GreenZones.org.
>
> Because we are in such an early stage of development, we have no
> technical staff to run the servers or to install / maintain Wikimedia
> engine. We currently host with Spymac, which is running on Linux servers.

Hello,

Well don't you have at least someone with some php / linux knowledge ?
If so post here for some help and we will glad to answer. You can also
try #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net to chat with wikipedia's system
administrators and MediaWikipedia's developers.

> Would anyone be interested in helping us build Wiki into our site
> GreenZones.org?

Well setting site is one (easy) thing for which we can surely help.
Building a community of active contributor is something totally
different and I am afraid we can't help on this point :o)

> Like the other Wiki sites, we would like the Green Version to be
> connected to the larger Wiki community to make sure all the information
> and content is available to everyone, everywhere in the world. But at
> the same time, focus our content from our users to make it easy to learn
> about everything green.
<snip>

cheers,

--
Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar
Servers in trouble ? noc (at) wikimedia (dot) org

Re: GreenZones.org [ In reply to ]

astronouth7303 at gmail

Nov 14, 2004, 1:47 PM

Post #3 of 3 (560 views)

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You are far from the only ones. There are many wikis using MediaWiki
to distribute information about a specialized topic. Several I happen
to help out in:
*Gmail Wiki (http://www.gmailwiki.com/)
*FIRSTwiki (http://www.firstwiki.org/)
*FURCwiki (http://furc.zapto.org/wiki/) (I happen to run this one)

If you need help with a particular feature, first check the User's
Guide (at http://meta.wikimedia.org/), then ask at either the IRC
channel (irc://freenode.net/#mediawiki) or this mailing list.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:35:51 -0800, Christopher Adjani
<christopher@greenzones.org> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Because we are in such an early stage of development, we have no
> technical staff to run the servers or to install / maintain Wikimedia
> engine.

After set up, MediaWiki (the Wikipedia engine) is virtually
maintainence free. MediaWiki is a generic wiki engine. See
http://wikipedia.sourceforge.org/

> We currently host with Spymac, which is running on Linux
> servers.
>
> Would anyone be interested in helping us build Wiki into our site
> GreenZones.org?

You're not the only ones. I would help, actually, but I've got a bunch
of other stuff to work on.

> Like the other Wiki sites, we would like the Green Version to be
> connected to the larger Wiki community to make sure all the information
> and content is available to everyone, everywhere in the world.

InterWiki links. [[Wikipedia:InterWiki]]. They're how seperate and
specialized wikis connect to each other.

> [snip]
>

-- Jamie
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