====== LivingThing Central ====== ===== What is this? ===== You have arrived at the LivingThing wiki, a research tool for complexity, incorporating --- * [[http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/start?do=index|articles]] on important concepts in [[complexity]] theory * [[notebooks:start|personal research notebooks]] * more stuff when we think of it. Unlike the [[wp>Wikipedia]], we do not aim to be an impartial reference, but more of a scrapbook for specialist research into the emerging research areas around complexity. This goal may change if you get involved and have a say in it. ===== Can I be involved? ===== yes. Registration for this wiki is open to all - once you have registered, you may edit (almost) anything and comment on absolutely everything in the wiki, much as in the world's most famous Wiki, [[wp>Wiki|Wikipedia]]. At this stage in its life the wiki is in beta test phase. It's dog ugly, not very efficient, and is missing lots of [[meta:features]] that i ([[notebooks:dan:start|Dan]]) would like. Don't be afraid. It works, it is regularly backed up and will only be improving - there will be at least one person (dan again) working full-time on it for the next year to get it up to scratch and to fill it with useful information. **Please click on the "login" button below to [[this>?do=login|login]] or [[this>?do=register|register]] for an account.** Um... if a few of us are starting to use this thing at the same time... let's have a [[New Users]] page where we can discuss what does and does not work for us in this wiki... [[New Users|go there]] for some discussion. ===== This is a proof-of-concept demonstration ===== We hope that its existence will demonstrate the utility of such a site to researchers and encourage them to create one of their own. In fact, they have - see "Similar projects" below. Or to relaunch this site in the misty future as a more credentialled site. Or, as an outside possibility - to participate in this one. ===== What else do i need to know? ===== Participants are requested to observe the [[meta:housekeeping]] and [[meta:policy]] guidelines, and should be aware of [[meta:copyright]] issues, and [[meta:how to]] use this particular piece of wiki software. However, most of it should be obvious, so don't hold back if you are, for some ineffable reason, feeling eager. ===== Similar projects ===== (Please add your own!) * [[http://www.eoearth.org/|the Encyclopaedia of Earth]] * [[http://www.comdig.org|Complexity Digest]] * [[http://www.necsi.org/community/wiki/index.php/Main_Page|NESCI complex systems wiki]] * [[http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/systems/index.php/Main_Page|DCS-Wiki]]. The abbreviation DCS stands for "Distributed Computing Systems" or "Distributed and Complex Systems". The DCS wiki contains topics of current distributed and complex systems research. * [[http://www.transdisciplinarygateway.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php|Transdisciplinary wiki]]: "...collaboration across disciplinarily organised interests. More importantly, it describes a collaborative setting wherein those different disciplinary interests generate the spark of synergy; to generate an enhanced collective intelligence through which to deal with complex real world issues." * [[http://humanecologyforum.org/|the "Human Ecology forum"]], a blog-and-wiki based out of the College of the Atlantic for student discussion of issues in Human Ecology. * [[http://complexsystems.lri.fr/Cosypedia/tiki-index.php|CO-SY-Pedia]] * Cranfield University's [[http://complexityscience.pbwiki.com/|complexity science wiki]]