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  • From: Graham <grahamburnett@blueyonder.co.uk>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Wikipedia's Permaculture Problems
  • Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:54:52 +0000

Might I suggest using the permaculture wiki at
http://permaculture.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
to develop the wikipedia permaculture article


Cheers Graham

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:19 -0600, Rael Bassan wrote:
> On skimming the wikipedia's permaculture article,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture It was obvious that additional
> editing is needed.
>
> To reduce edit war energy, perhaps the changes could be collectively
> burnished in a more open wiki, before submission to wikipedia.
>
> At first glance, these sections drew my attention:
>
> 1) Permaculture design for ecologinomic (ecology-economic) ethics.
> The horrid neologism "ecologinomic" is missing both quotes and definitions
> in dictionaries (Websters and the top two neologism dictionaries listed at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism which includes The Internalational
> Dictionary of Neologisms, http://www.neologisms.us/ curated by
> permaculturalist mIEKAL aND.)
>
> 2) In the Critiques section they have:
> Some critics have argued that permaculture is best suited to tropical,
> mediterranean or desert conditions, but isn't suitable for a cool temperate
> country such as the UK. [5]
>
> Which ignores the many UK usages that follow in the
> Contemporarypermaculture wiki at examples
> section:
>
> 3) In the Contemporary examples section, they request:
> Please wikify (format) this [North America] article or section as suggested
> in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style
>
> Rael
>
> Chicagoland Urban Permaculture (CUP)
> http://sustaincup.blogspot.com/
>
>
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Cheers Graham Burnett

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