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| − | We are excited to announce that the Animal Rights and Vegan community now has a wiki. The JFA wiki is | + | 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. | + | 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 not written with the cultural norm that exploiting animals is acceptable. And just to be clear, we are 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. | + | 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 already site 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, calling for articles on a wide range of related topics. For this site, we mean topics that are germane to animal rights and vegan advocacy. | |
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| + | As an example, consider our article on [[Chickens | chickens]] compared to Wikipedia's article on chickens. Wikipedia's article | ||
Revision as of 09:16, 22 July 2019
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 not written with the cultural norm that exploiting animals is acceptable. And just to be clear, we are 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 already site 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, calling for articles on a wide range of related topics. For this site, we mean 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's article
