Wiki Go-Live Announcement (2019-08-19)

Draft work in process

We are excited to announce that the animal rights and vegan community now has a wiki. The JFA Wiki is live at JusticeforAnimals.org.

One of the motivations for moving the site to a wiki platform is to facilitate collaboration. We are using the same platform as Wikipedia, and like Wikipedia, anyone can now author and edit content (see below). But unlike Wikipedia, articles on this site will be moderated to ensure they are written without the prevailing assumption that exploiting animals is acceptable. And just to be clear Justice for Animals is an animal rights organization, not an animal welfare organization.

With this change, Justice for Animal's mission has expanded to providing a collaborative, encyclopedic, evidence-based body of knowledge useful for animal rights and vegan advocacy, and to those who just want to explore these topics.

Existing content has been migrated from the old site—articles that were in Basics Section on the old site can now be found in the Beginner Listing, and those in the Objection Section are now in the Replies Listing.

The new site already has lots of useful information, especially in providing talking points for replying to objections to animal rights and veganism. But a wiki takes an encyclopedic approach, and calls for articles on a wide range of related topics. For the JFA Wiki this means topics that are germane to animal rights and vegan advocacy.

As an example, consider our article on chickens compared to Wikipedia's article on chickens. Wikipedia provides general information that is well worth the read. But instead of trying to duplicate the information on Wikipedia, we provide information on the aspects of chickens useful for advocacy, including information on chicken sentience and cognition, the way we harm chickens, humane labels and certifications, nutritional information on chicken meat and eggs, and environmental harms associated with chicken production.