Space Data Wiki

What is a Space Data Wiki ?
Spacedatawiki is an ambitious project with a scope, seemingly as large as space it's self. But it does have a well defined goal to allow participation by everyone in space exploration, short of actually going into space.

Think of this as a “Mediawiki for Space Exploration”. If you are not familiar with Mediawiki, Wikipedia or Wiki's in general, then I suggest you spend some time with them, or the potential social and scientific revolution that this project could provide to space exploration, will not be apparent to you.

Just to be clear, "Space Data Wiki" is the name of the software project, just like "Mediawiki" is the name of the software that powers Wikipedia. Resulting applications of this software could easily be called "Wikispace", "Marswiki" or "Astrowiki", depending on how the original software is implemented.

So what can you do ?

* Do you have an interest in space? What kind of participation would you like to see in this project? * Are you a Scientist ? How could this project contribute to your research or allow you to put across concepts and discoveries to society? * Are you a coder? Could you code for an international project, and be aware of some of the sociological issues that we see with Wikipedia (for example) ?

Contact the project ! AND/OR edit this wiki.

Barney M Holmes AKA DJBarney, Project Administrator, March 2007.