Editing Guide

In addition to the instructions below, you will find helpful resources and information here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet

https://anarchyinaction.org/index.php?title=Help:Contents

Create a New Page

To create a new page, just put a title into the address bar e.g.: https://getlibre.org/wiki/index.php?title=Example

...then when the page isn't found, you just click the "edit this page" link, save, and voila it's a new page.

After creating a new page, please add a link on the Main Page.

Create a New Heading

Write = on both sides of a heading. Write == on both sides of a subheading.

Linking

To link inside the wiki, type two brackets on each side of the target page name. Or click on the chain links in the toolbar.

To link outside the wiki, type one bracket on each side of the URL.

Upload images and documents

Use the left sidebar to upload images and documents. To embed the document or image on the wiki, click on the framed landscape in the toolbar.

Citations

Rationale

When editing this wiki, it is important to keep track of the origin of the text that you add. Contributing from other sources, such as books, articles, and websites, is encouraged. However, you must be careful to cite the original source. Good citations allow users of this wiki to sort out information and opinions added to the wiki and decide how reliable that information is.

When gathering from books, articles, and websites, just jot down basic information about the source. Then add that to the wiki when you save your edit. It doesn't have to be very detailed, but more detail is always helpful. The important thing is that other users will be able to figure out where the text came from so that they can get to it if they want to.

To make a footnote, type <ref>...</ref> around each footnote.

Then, type <references/> at the end of the page.

Books

At least keep track of the author, title, the year it was published and the page number. Here is the suggested format:

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (New York: HarperCollins, 1974), 175-176.

Articles

If you copy text from printed or online articles or newspapers, include the name of the magazine or newspaper and the article date.

Suggested format:

Mark Mazzeti, "C.I.A. Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels", New York Times, 14 October 2014.

This wiki

It you're citing another page on this wiki, just paste a link in the footnote. Suggested format:

Athenian polis, "Decisions"

Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a helpful section about citing its articles. Wikipedia also provides a tool to generate citations for particular articles. For the cite tool, see Wikipedia:Citing_sources, or follow the "Cite this page" link in the toolbox on the left of the page in the article you wish to cite.

Websites

At least paste the URL. The date you accessed it is also helpful. Here is the suggested format:

Anarchy On Air. “Who the Heck Are We?” Last modified 2014. http://anarchyonairwesu.tumblr.com/about.

More info

These websites are useful information on citations:

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

https://getlibre.org/wiki/index.php?title=Citation

Societies and Communities

The communities section lists places where face-to-face decision making is possible. This would include a small town or a neigbhorhood in a larger city.

The societies section lists confederations and networks of communities. For pages on societies, please use the following headings: Culture, Decisions, Economy, Environment, Crime, Revolution (if applicable), Neighboring Societies. These are based on the chapters of Anarchy Works.

For an anti-authoritarian and/or anarchist society, please add to Main Page the years of the society's existence and the number of members. For a society that is participatory but not anti-authoritarian and/or anarchist, please write the years of the society's existence and the number of members that experienced anarchy.

Categories

As explained on the Main Page, we sort examples of anarchy into four main categories: Anarchist, anti-authoritarian, participatory, and autonomous. Anarchism refers to a political theory and practice that arose in the 19th century, aimed at abolishing coercive hierarchy and establishing a libertarian socialist society in its place. Anti-authoritarianism refers to a broader category of politics including groups such as the Wobblies and Zapatistas that oppose coercive hierarchy but do not call themselves anarchists. Third, a participatory' category includes examples such as ancient Athens where anarchy is extended to many but not to all or even necessarily to most of society. Participatory politics encompasses anti-authoritarianism, which encompasses anarchism. Finally, the autonomous category refers to self-governed communities that shift power relations in an anti-authoritarian direction, such as the Paris Commune, which fell short of participatory governance.