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Some of the main pages are:
Astrobiology
- Astrobiology
- Abiogenesis - about natural process of how life arises from non living matter
- Panspermia - transfer of life between plaents on meteorites.
- Terrestrial analogue sites
- Murchison meteorite
Life on Mars
- Possible Present Day Habitats For Life On Mars
- Life on Mars
- Present day Mars habitability analogue environments on Earth
- Viking program
- Allan Hills 84001 - the meteorite with tiney structures resembling cells
Life in other locations
Planetary protection
Guidelines
- I set this up after a bizarre situation in Wikipedia where the original for Possible Present Day Habitats For Life On Mars was deleted by editors who knew almost nothing about the topic . They didn't even know that searching for such habitats and for signs of extant life in them is one of the top science goals of NASA and ESA.
- See my Alice In Wonderland Sanctioning In Wikipedia - Blocked For Covering NASA's Science Goal To Search For Habitats For Life On Mars‽
So, the idea was to set up a wiki where if you contribute a good astrobiology article it is safe from being arbitrarily deleted by people who know nothing about the topic. If you've wanted to make encyclopedic articles about astrobiology but find Wikipedia frustrating as an editor, this may be useful.
With that background in mind:
- Will proceed more like scholarpedia where if someone contributes a good and substantial article, or has done substantial work on it, then they are treated as the main author and others are expected to ask them to approve significant changes.
- Similar also for collaborative articles. It's only me editing at present. But anyone can in join in working on it. The idea again is to respect content contributed by other editors. Hopefully don't need a lot of guidelines.
Otherwise similar to wikipedia - mainspace articles to be reasonably encyclopaedic, please keep to well sourced statements.
Vision
- I don't think the voting method for Wikipedia works all that well, as it tends to sprawl with no overall vision, and major decisions made because on that day or week 41 people turned up to vote who thought one way and 39 the other way or something.
I'm admin and will be final authority if needed for anything. Hopefully it will be a friendly place :). Also on things like how to categorize pages, on what is and is not included etc.
Because this is on Miraheze at present, anyone can join in editing and there is no pre-approval stage. But I can block people from the wiki if necesesary - and in practice, not likely to be a problem, it doesn't get the attention of vandals, trolls etc of Wikipedia.
Blogs
I've also set up a test blog, where one can post original research or opinions and points of views. , whatever one wants related to astrobiology:
The idea is you can put in your own user space and link to your blog from the main page.
Robertinventor (talk) 00:53, 30 August 2018 (UTC)