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[[OrthodoxWiki:Welcome|Welcome]]! We're glad you're here. '''OrthodoxWiki''' was inaugurated in November 2004.
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==What is OrthodoxWiki? (i.e. what it aspires to)==
*It's a wiki.
*It's a wiki-community. Personal pages and opinions are welcome as long as they are marked and in the proper placefocused on content creation.*It's an a place for Orthodox mind-meld.*A communal projectChristians to share their knowledge.
*It's international in scope.
*It's pan-Orthodox.
*It's an encyclopedia.*It's an Orthodox knowledge-management systemaimed at producing articles that can be used freely (with attribution), especially for Christian education.
*It has many audiences—it's a resource for non-Orthodox as well as Orthodox clergy and laity.
*It's a discussion forum with attention to the development of documentation to help clarify / articulate some fundamental issues in Church life.
*It has [[NPOV|a specific bias]].
Although OrthodoxWiki contains many links to external sites, it aspires to be much more than a human edited directory. Encyclopedia-like articles are considered a valuable part of this enterprise. The most fundamental aspect of all this is the consolidation of a "[http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/kd/ke_4_biz.shtml knowledge landscape]" within Orthodoxy.
==What OrthodoxWiki is not==
* '''It is not a church body.typical social networking site'''—OrthodoxWiki is focused on content and isn't a great place to network.
* '''It is not an official voice of Orthodoxy'''—among other things, this means that official documentation from particular Church officials does not constitute binding editorial policy for OrthodoxWiki. In other words, OrthodoxWiki regards itself as a beneficiary of the freedom of the press granted by the country of its server's residence.
* '''It is not a substitute for your priest or bishop.'''
* '''It is not perfect'''—OrthodoxWiki is a work in progress. It's also a communal effort, which means that not every member of the community would agree with every statement made in an article. We try hard to weed out anything that is flatly inaccurate or heretical. We press authors to provide sources and document diverging interpretations in a thorough and non-polemical manner. Nevertheless, it is certain that we don't catch or correct everything. If you see that something is lacking, please step in and fix it! You may also simply note your disagreement on the article's discussion page.
* '''It is not a battleground'''—you are free to state your opinionsin appropriate places (a personal user page or in a discussion on a talk page), but do not threaten, harass or intimidate those with whom you have a disagreement. Rather, we encourage everybody to approach matters in an intelligent manner and engage in polite discussion.
* '''It is not Wikipedia.''' We borrow heavily from Wikipedia's structure, we use the same software as Wikipedia, we link to Wikipedia, and a number of our articles find their initial source in Wikipedia, but OrthodoxWiki is completely unaffiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.
==Colophon==
OrthodoxWiki uses [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki], one heckuva [[w:Wiki_software|wiki engine]], and is maintained and administered by [[User:FrJohn|FrJohn]].
The OrthodoxWiki logo was designed and donated by [[User:HappyGrevling|Zander]] and is Copyright © OrthodoxWiki and its administrator.
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