User:Philralph/sandbox

Welcome!
Society Gardens
 * promotes and celebrates Wikia focused on the more serious side of life
 * values longevity
 * explores opportunities for collaboration

Invitation
Please feel free to add 'your' Wikia to the listings if your wiki is open to the ideas suggested above. Any active contributor may add it if the Founder doesn't. If you add a wiki here please also add its description page on Central Wikia to the category:Society Gardens

Participating Wikia by longevity
KEY: 30 = Last 30 days, WN = WikiNode, CAN = Community and networking

New Wikia less than 3 months old
Share your new-found enthusiasm for Wikia and help nurture fellow Civil society type 'newbies' 


 * 2007-06-13 Lane Cove Bushland - 30 - conservation in and around the Municipality of Lane Cove in Lower North Shore, Sydney


 * 2007-05-01 Government - 30 - all about government (eg Porirua City Council or Goa Transport Ministry): structure, purpose, performance (with links to w:c:Campaigns for the elections) (founder has Indian name and was living near New York; helpers with text are in Wellington and Seattle; occasionally a fourth opinion could be very useful)

Wikia 3 - 12 months old
Benefit from mutual encouragement when enthusiasm of founder may be at risk of burn-out OR they just need injection of skills and lateral thinking to go with the continued enthusiasm.


 * 2006-10-17 We-think - 30 Experimental wiki to allow people to add to, delete, and comment on the draft of the book We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity by Charlie Leadbeater.


 * 2006-08-23 WikiSocial - 30 - CAN - a free-content social network for people to socialize, experiment, and play.


 * 2006-08-18 Projects - 30 - or Open Project Development (note: it's not a software development wiki). It's a wiki where everyone can start a project and develop it.

Wikia more than 1 year old
Mutual help to sustain wikis and hopefully build momentum


 * 2006-07-19 Silicon Valley Commons - 30 - founded by Leo Romero. A portal for charities and other service-oriented organizations engaged in good works for the Silicon Valley.


 * 2006-07-04 Campaigns - 30 - by Jimmy Wales and advertised to bloggers as the central political campaign wiki on Wikia.


 * 2006-06-24 Pen Pal - 30 - A multilingual pen pal directory, particularly aimed at people learning a language. It's slowly improving, and every now and then someone tries using it, always listing themselves in the wrong place or forgetting to list contact details. Needs people to use it, and people to translate, so if you want a pen pal, now's the time and here's the place.


 * 2006-01-21 Psychology - 30


 * 2006-01-09 Renewable Energy Design - 30


 * 2005-10-17 Permaculture - 30


 * 2005-10-03 Meta Collab - 30 - a collaboration on all things collaboration.

Wikia more than 2 years old
''Mutual help towards really robust, self-sustaining wikis and a critical mass of regular contributors. Onwards and upwards!''


 * 2005-07-04 Engineering - 30


 * 2005-07-01 Academia - 30


 * 2005-04-02 Poetry - 30


 * 2005-03-12 Journawiki, about journalism - 30


 * 2005-03-10 Towns, Villages and Cities - 30


 * 2005-01-28 Education - 30


 * 2005-01-28 Future - 30


 * 2005-01-11 Beyond Voting - 30


 * 2005-01-07 Fishery Management - 30


 * 2004-12-31 Genealogy - 30


 * 2004-12-06 Sustainable Community Action - 30 - WN - CAN - Collaborations

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