Anarchy:About

About This Website

This website is a resource for anyone to research and write about how and when anarchy can work. Anarchy, coming from the Greek words an (without) and archos (ruler) refers to a situation without domination, without coercive hierarchy.

The website started as a project by Dan Fischer and Capitalism vs. the Climate, with web development assistance from getlibre.org.

We aim to run this website itself as an example of anarchy in action. Currently, Capitalism vs. the Climate administrates the wiki, but if there is interest, we would like to switch over to having all contributors be able to vote on rules and elect and instantly recall administrators.

Our Culture is Free Culture

• When we say "free" we mean freedom. Libre, not simply gratis. Think free software, not the watered-down term, "open-source".
• We're proud hackers, people who enjoy "playful cleverness". If you see that term here, know what it means before you criticize.
• Our Equation: You + Your Computer(s) == Empowerment & Self-Defense.

User Accounts

To edit this wiki you must request an account, since we've been spammed too often already :/

Help

Our [Editing Guide] and help section are great resources for wiki editors. Technical issues concerning this website (e.g. broken links) should be directed to Diggity.

Searching

This website uses the MediaWiki search engine as the default. Unsuccessful searches are often caused by searching for common words like "have" and "from", which are not indexed, or by specifying more than one search term (only pages containing all of the search terms will appear in the result). You may also search this website with DuckDuckGo.

Software Requirements

Ogg Theora Movie Player

This website contains high-quality movies in Ogg Theora format. A current version of VLC Media Player is recommended. For other options, refer to this list.

PDF Viewer

This website contains PDF documents. A current version of Evince is recommended for best compatibility. For alternatives, see this comparison.

Newer Browser

• A current version of Firefox is recommended for best compatibility. Other options include Chromium, Midori, SeaMonkey, Camino, or Konqueror.
• See our Web browser tips for info on making your browser smarter and more secure.

JavaScript & SSL

Enabled by default in most browsers.

• How to enable JavaScript. You may choose to disable JavaScript (e.g. if you're using NoScript and don't want to whitelist our domain), but you will miss out on some MediaWiki features/extensions like the advanced editor.
• Enable SSL. It's important to browse the Web with HTTPS as much as possible, and HTTPS Everywhere will help.

Privacy

We're currently working on a detailed privacy statement. One of the focuses of this wiki is privacy on the Web, so we take it very seriously. Be sure that we don't share or sell your data, spam you, data-mine you, or other nasty practices practiced by entities like Facebook. However:

1. Search engines like Google may spider this website and archive information from it.
2. MediaWiki keeps detailed logs of edits to this wiki. Even pages/edits that are deleted remain for a very long time (maybe indefinitely) and accounts are never deleted, just blocked.
3. We are hosted by DreamHost and can't make promises for them or guarantee they wouldn't submit to legal or police action. As far as we can tell, DreamHost is a privacy-respecting Web host.

• DreamHost policies:
  • Privacy Policy
  • Acceptable Use Policy
  • Terms of Service.
• Most DreamHost policies only apply to their customers. For users/editors of this site, this statement is probably most important:
  • "[DreamHost] may also collect the URL from which you linked into our site, your IP address, and your browser type and version, all of which are collected in an anonymous manner without being linked to any of your personal information."

The Internet is a big place and information wants to be free. So, as a general rule, don't post anything potentially illegal or anything you wouldn't want made public.

Development

This website is developed and maintained by:

• Diggity

Copyright and Licensing

This website is powered by MediaWiki and features icons based upon the Tango Icon Library. The skin(template) is based upon Cavendish-MW.

MediaWiki is free software available under the GNU General Public License. Tango icons and the Cavendish-MW skin are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

All other content on this site is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, unless otherwise stated. Please contact Diggity for copyright and licensing inquiries.

Submissions

All edits and other contributions to this site (i.e. anything you add or change on this wiki) are considered released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. Please be aware of this when you post. We have some nice boilerplate text below the editing window that states this, so don't say we didn't warn you :)