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Welcome to NewgonWiki's Editing Portal!

Newgon's aim is to provide concise and easy-to-deploy material for activists roughly aligned with our ethos. In other words, we are seeking to compile only the useful and accessible information, making it easy to retrieve and re-use in online guerilla activism/the real world. We will avoid excessive self-reference and jargon, aiming to make ourselves accessible to both the public and sympathetic individuals who wish to act as public educators.

Quicklinks for Editors: Noticeboard (discussion) | Catlist | To-do list.

What does NewgonWiki do?

We host lots of things. Here are some examples of ongoing work:

Project topics such as - Debate, Research, Testimony, Legal Information (much of this doubles as encyclopedic - just look at the articles/categories to see how), Important texts (archives) and materials used on social media, even pamphlets.

Encyclopedic topics such as Personal/Organizational Profiles, Terminology, Important texts (about) and much more.

You are also free, to provide the following:

Relevant book reviews - within a categorized, encyclopedic/stub-encyclopedic article on the topic (please).

Personal experimental/essay content. Essay/Experimental/Creative writing are other potential uses of NewgonWiki, and are openly encouraged. It won't get you a link on the front page, but all content should be added to Category:Essays and a name-linked subcat, so it can be read by those casting around for new ideas.

How does NewgonWiki organize this material?

All public material barring personal essay and user-page content is classified as Encyclopedia and/or Project - oriented. Some project material such as Research and Debate Guide can be accessed via the navigation panel/homepage, but also enters a limited number of Encyclopedia categories. Pure Encyclopedia material (e.g. People, Organizations, Historical Events) is put into multiple encyclopedia categories as demanded by Help:Categories. All public material barring user-page content is categorized in some way, even if it is an essay in a non-encyclopedia author category as above.

For help categorizing material (vital for new encyclopedia content), see Help:Categories.

Working standards and technical guidance

Please see our dedicated article for more guidance.

Do not feel afraid to ask about working standards on the PCMA chat, the noticeboard, or on any relevant talk page. Many of the accepted standards are cultural, and not explained here.

What do we have planned?

See our To-do list, Mirror Project or Research Resources below for any number of interesting literature review and article writing opportunities.

ROC/SA classification project (not yet active)

Ask yourself - "on a scale of 1-5", what is the risk of censorship for this information? Censorship can be erasure or distortion on a resource such as Wikipedia. If it's a 4 or 5, let's write a nice, clean article about it. If it's 1 or 2, let's write a stub if it's important to us, and link to Wikipedia, etc. Also ask yourself - on a scale of 1-5 what is the strategic alignment of a person or organization with our ethos? 1s and 5s are important topics, as are many 2s and 4s.

Let's get ROC and SA scores uploaded to the articles in a pretty template!

Toolbox

Here is a full list of help pages and projects that will help you build the wiki.

Toolbox

Here are some user-generated projects and "special pages" for aiding the development of the Wiki:

Noticeboard (NW GD)

In-house general discussion about the Wiki.

Working standards and technical advice

Our own cultural standards, and some general advice re. Wikitext.

Help:Categories

Some useful category advice and templates.

To-do list

Find something on our to-do list, or request action if you have not got the time. Long-term, ongoing and future tasks.

Mirror Project

Using other wikis/resources to duplicate content and add to ours (with some cautions).

Research Resources

Research lists we can use as the starting point for literature reviews. Please add a note to signify how much, and when each link was checked.

Linkblog

For permanent listing links of interest to NewgonWiki editors. May be used to do an archive search.

Special pages

Browse this index for novel stuff that will help build the wiki.

Wanted pages

One such special page. An autogen list of requested pages (using wikilink frequency).

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+<div style="font-size:190%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''Welcome to NewgonWiki's ''Editing Portal!'''''</div>
-Lots of things. We welcome contributions relating to:
+Newgon's aim is to '''provide concise and easy-to-deploy material for activists''' roughly aligned with our [[Ethos of Newgon|ethos]]. In other words,  we are seeking to compile only the '''useful''' and '''accessible''' information, making it easy to retrieve and re-use in online guerilla activism/the real world. We will avoid excessive self-reference and jargon, aiming to make ourselves accessible to both the public and sympathetic individuals who wish to act as public educators.
+'''Quicklinks for Editors: '''[[NewgonWiki talk:Noticeboard|Noticeboard]] (discussion) | [[Help:Categories|Catlist]] | [[NewgonWiki:To-do list|To-do list]].
+|}
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-*Debate
+==What does NewgonWiki do?==
-*Research
+[[File:NewgonOrg.png|thumb|Our [[Newgon|organization]] has a long history]]
-*Testimony
-*Personal Biography
-*Profiles of groups
-*Terminology (about)
-*Important texts (about)
-*Legal info
-*Profiles of countries
-*Any other encyclopaedia-type content.
-Really important stuff will also be added to non-category-type indexes listed on the homepage.
+We host lots of things. Here are some examples of ongoing work:
-===Books===
+*'''Project''' topics such as - [[Debate Guide|Debate]], [[Research]], [[Accounts and Testimonies|Testimony]], [[Legal Information]] (much of this doubles as encyclopedic - just look at the articles/categories to see how), [[Archive|Important texts (archives)]] and [[Memes and Graphics|materials used on social media, even pamphlets]].
-Please note that there is another project being proposed for the writing of book reviews and archiving of historical material from the movement. This is not to say that the work cannot begin on this website.
+*[[:Category:Official Encyclopedia|'''Encyclopedic''']] topics such as Personal/Organizational Profiles, [[:Category:Terminology|Terminology]], [[:Category:Publications & Documents|Important texts (about)]] and much more.
-===Your own essays, etc?===
+'''You are also free''', to provide the following:
-Essay/Experimental/Creative writing are other potential uses of NewgonWiki, and are openly encouraged. It won't necessarily get you a link on the front page (this will be determined by editorial consensus), but all content should be added to [[:Category:Essays]]
+*Relevant '''book reviews''' - within a categorized, encyclopedic/stub-encyclopedic article on the topic (please).
-==Categorising==
+*'''Personal experimental/essay content'''. Essay/Experimental/Creative writing are other potential uses of NewgonWiki, and are openly encouraged. It won't get you a link on the front page, but all content should be added to [[:Category:Essays]] and a name-linked subcat, so it can be read by those casting around for new ideas.
-We have to categorise virtually every article that we write. This is very important for encyclopedia articles.
+===How does NewgonWiki organize this material?===
-See [[Help:Categories]]
+All public material barring personal essay and user-page content is classified as Encyclopedia '''and/or''' Project - oriented. Some project material such as '''Research''' and '''Debate Guide''' can be accessed via the navigation panel/homepage, but ''also'' enters a limited number of Encyclopedia categories. Pure Encyclopedia material (e.g. People, Organizations, Historical Events) is put into multiple encyclopedia categories as demanded by [[Help:Categories]]. All public material barring user-page content is categorized in some way, even if it is an essay in a non-encyclopedia author category as above.
-==Capitalisation==
+For help categorizing material (vital for new encyclopedia content), see [[Help:Categories]].
-NewgonWiki avoids unnecessary capitalisation in titles and subsections.
+==Working standards and technical guidance==
-==Where to start==
+Please see our [[NewgonWiki:Working Standards and Technical Advice|dedicated article]] for more guidance.
-Just some ideas.
+Do not feel afraid to ask about working standards on the PCMA chat, [[NewgonWiki talk:Noticeboard|the noticeboard]], or on any relevant talk page. Many of the accepted standards are cultural, and not explained here.
-===[[Help:Articles in progress|Articles in progress]]===
+==What do we have planned?==
-A list of incomplete articles that cannot yet be categorised (added to the encyclopedia).
+See our [[NewgonWiki:To-do list|To-do list]], [[NewgonWiki:Mirror Project|Mirror Project]] or [[Help:Research Resources|Research Resources]] below for any number of interesting literature review and article writing opportunities.
-===[[NewgonWiki:Mirror Project|Mirror Project]]===
+===ROC/SA classification project (not yet active)===
-Using other wikis to duplicate content and add to ours (with some cautions).
+'''Ask yourself''' - "on a scale of 1-5", what is the '''risk of censorship''' for this information? Censorship can be erasure ''or'' distortion on a resource such as [[Wikipedia censorship of MAP related topics|Wikipedia]]. If it's a 4 or 5, let's write a nice, clean article about it. If it's 1 or 2, let's write a stub if it's important to us, and link to Wikipedia, etc. Also ask yourself - '''on a scale of 1-5''' what is the '''strategic alignment''' of a '''person or organization''' with our ethos? 1s and 5s are important topics, as are many 2s and 4s.
-===[[Help:Potential project content|Potential project content]]===
+Let's get '''ROC''' and '''SA''' scores uploaded to the articles in a pretty template!
-Details articles that may be developed into project portals.
+==Toolbox==
-===[[Special:Wantedpages|Wanted pages]]===
+Here is a full list of help pages and projects that will help you build the wiki.
-a) [[Special:Wantedpages|Wanted pages]] is a list of articles proposed, but not yet created on NewgonWiki.
-Develop one of these or generate a listing by editing [[NewgonWiki:Wanted Page|this page]] or an encyclopedia article (lists are particularly useful), making sure to <nowiki>[[wikilink]]</nowiki>.
-===[[Special:Specialpages|Special pages]]===
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+|<center>
+[[Image:Broadbanner.png|link=]]<div style="font-size:190%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''Toolbox'''''</div>
+Here are some user-generated projects and "special pages" for aiding the development of the Wiki:
+<hr>
+<div style="font-size:140%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''[[NewgonWiki talk:Noticeboard|Noticeboard (NW GD)]]'''''</div>
+In-house '''general discussion''' about the Wiki.
+<hr>
+<div style="font-size:140%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''[[NewgonWiki:Working standards and technical advice|Working standards and technical advice]]'''''</div>
+Our own cultural standards, and some general advice re. Wikitext.
+<hr>
+<div style="font-size:140%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''[[Help:Categories]]'''''</div>
+Some useful category advice and templates.
+<hr>
+<div style="font-size:140%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''[[NewgonWiki:To-do list|To-do list]]'''''</div>
+Find something on our to-do list, or request action if you have not got the time. Long-term, ongoing and future tasks.
+<hr>
+<div style="font-size:140%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''[[NewgonWiki:Mirror Project|Mirror Project]]'''''</div>
+Using other wikis/resources to duplicate content and add to ours (with some cautions).
+<hr>
+<div style="font-size:140%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''[[Help:Research Resources|Research Resources]]'''''</div>
+Research lists we can use as the starting point for literature reviews. Please add a note to signify how much, and when each link was checked.
+<hr>
+<div style="font-size:140%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''[[NewgonWiki:Linkblog|Linkblog]]'''''</div>
+For permanent listing links of interest to NewgonWiki editors. May be used to do an archive search.
+<hr>
+<div style="font-size:140%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''[[Special:Specialpages|Special pages]]'''''</div>
 Browse this index for novel stuff that will help build the wiki.
+<hr>
+<div style="font-size:140%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">'''[[Special:Wantedpages|Wanted pages]]'''''</div>
+One such special page. An autogen list of requested pages (using wikilink frequency).
+|}
-===[[NewgonWiki:To-do list|To-do list]]===
+[[fr:Aide:Redaction]]
-Find something on our to-do list.
-==Resources==
-These may be used to supplement new content and expand reading.
-===[[Help:Research Resources|Research Resources]]===
-Literature reviews.
-===[[NewgonWiki:Linkblog|Linkblog]]===
-For listing links of interest to Newgon.com editors.