Ekopedia

Ekopedia.org

Screenshot of en.ekopedia.org home page
Web address www.ekopedia.org
Slogan "A more sustainable way of life... You know Why. Here is How!"
Commercial No
Type of site
 Internet encyclopedia project on sustainability and appropriate technology.
Registration Optional
Available in Multilingual: German, English, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Italian, Polish
Owner Ekopedia Foundation
Created by Jean-Luc Henry
Launched December 2002
Revenue None (Nonprofit)
Alexa rank
 385,310 (April 2014)[1]
Current status In a perpetual work-in-progress

Ekopedia is a free (Creative Commons), collaborative (wiki), and multilingual encyclopedia project dedicated in providing answers and spreading practical knowledge related to environmental sustainability. Their goal is to help everyone become more independent and establish the foundation necessary to build a better world.

History

Created in Quebec in December 2002 under the name of Newlimits.org, the project was initially in French and under Free Art License. It was using TWiki wiki application for collaborative edition and in 2004, community decided to migrate to MediaWiki.

The project got over 1000 articles 10 December 2006.[2] In February 2007, English[3] and Esperanto[4] Projects were created. Italian,[5] German[6] and Polish[7] were created in February and March 2008 and the Spanish[8] in November 2008. Ekopedia has about 2500 articles (> 1 800 in French).

The Ekopedia Foundation was created on 19 September 2007[9]

In April 2009, Ekopedia migrated all its contents from Free Art License to Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0)[10] in order to facilitate content sharing with other projects like Wikipedia, and Appropedia.

Project details

Ekopedia gives people solutions and practical knowledge in order to act in a more environmentally sound way. Ekopedia is a wiki-based website (like Wikipedia) using MediaWiki. Ekopedia is now licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0 (after having been under Free Art Licence for more than 6 years).[11]

Ekopedia is developed mainly in French, Polish, and Italian. In 2008, the French Project received 2,3 millions unique visitors and each day, an average of 11,000 people come to visit and participate in the project, which makes Ekopedia the most visited[12] French website focused on ecology and sustainability issues.

Ekopedia articles are organized around 12 topics in order to meet the basic needs of people : Birth, Education, Food, Lodging, Clothing, Art and craft, Thinking, Living together, Health and care, Travel, Play and Communication. There are thus many articles on green building, washable diapers, seasonal vegetables, electric vehicles or even tofu manufacturing.

Ekopedia is differs from Wikipedia as certain types of content and collaboration are not suitable for Wikipedia.[13] In contrast to Wikipedia, Ekopedia content requires a different approach in selecting and writing articles.

Since the end of 2008, Appropedia and Ekopedia Projects are in active collaboration that could lead to a projects merge.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ekopedia.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ "Ekopedia dépasse les 1000 articles" (in French). Fr.ekopedia.org. 28 August 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  3. ↑ "Ekopedia in English". En.ekopedia.org. 20 January 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  4. ↑ "Ekopedia in Esperanto" (in Esperanto). Eo.ekopedia.org. 15 March 2011. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  5. ↑ "Ekopedia in Italian" (in Italian). It.ekopedia.org. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  6. ↑ "Ekopedia in German" (in German). De.ekopedia.org. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  7. ↑ "Ekopedia in Polish" (in Polish). Pl.ekopedia.org. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  8. ↑ "Ekopedia in Spanish" (in Spanish). Es.ekopedia.org. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  9. ↑ Archived 26 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ "Ekopedia:Licence-Migration-CC-BY-SA-3.0 – Ekopedia". En.ekopedia.org. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  11. ↑ "Ekopedia:Copyrights – Ekopedia". En.ekopedia.org. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  12. ↑ Bilan 2008 du projet Ekopedia.org Archived 22 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
  13. ↑ "Ekopedia is different from Wikipedia" (in French). Fr.ekopedia.org. 28 August 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  14. ↑ Ekopedia and Appropedia are adopting a deep but adaptable partnership: Appropedia:Memorandum of Understanding/Ekopedia

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