https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ 2026-04-11T21:22:24+00:00 https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/ https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/lib/exe/fetch.php/favicon.ico text/html 2026-04-11T18:14:08+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/getting_an_account?rev=1775931248&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Getting started with an account To contribute to curating these pages, you will need to set up an account, similarly to on many other sites. We give our curators editing rights over specific topics, and we are encouraging collective responsibility for maintaining and extending those aspects of the knowledge base. (It's not like Wikipedia, where anyone can change anything.) text/html 2026-04-11T17:44:16+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/xxxx/non_topic?rev=1775929456&do=diff text/html 2026-04-11T15:56:00+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/playground/playground?rev=1775922960&do=diff PlayGround There is nothing sacred here! Please edit exactly as you wish, delete anything you want, but not the whole page One point of this playground is to try out what is stated in the documentation. learningLearning & personal development text/html 2026-04-11T15:46:12+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/user/asimong?rev=1775922372&do=diff Simon Grant About me I'm an transdisciplinary commoner working in the few fields where my sense is that I have most to uniquely contribute. Having lived in a shared student house, a co-housing community for 7 years, and now since 2020 in a micro-community of four older adults, I have something to say about text/html 2026-04-11T13:46:16+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/mediawiki_and_dokuwiki?rev=1775915176&do=diff part of the GtC documentation MediaWiki and DokuWiki If you are familiar with editing any MediaWiki wiki, this table will help you find some of the basic equivalents in DokuWiki syntax. Syntax Examples MediaWiki DokuWiki DokuWiki result Internal Link [[a link]] [[a link|with title]] text/html 2026-04-11T13:43:58+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/doc/page_section_headings?rev=1775915038&do=diff part of the GtC documentation Paragraphs and page section headings When we talk about headings, we often use “h1” to mean a top-level heading, like a page title, because in HTML it is coded as <h1>. h2 is the next level down, etc. The text “Paragraphs and page section headings text/html 2026-04-11T07:46:42+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/start?rev=1775893602&do=diff Welcome to the 'Growing the Commons' knowledge base This is a project of Growing the Commons and comprises information on over 240 (and growing) commons and commons-related topics. With these skills we can provide for our communities and build commons and small businesses. Specialist curators maintain the topics and add new ones, so the knowledge is held as a genuine commons. text/html 2026-04-10T19:33:09+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/user/matslats?rev=1775849589&do=diff Matthew Slater (leave the ?250x250) About me My organisations My contact details text/html 2026-04-10T19:32:47+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/user/mrauchs?rev=1775849567&do=diff Michel Rauchs (leave the ?250x250) About me My organisations My contact details text/html 2026-04-10T19:26:31+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/wiki/syntax?rev=1775849191&do=diff index to the wiki namespace, or start over Formatting Syntax for Growing the Commons See also the md-syntax-cheatsheet DokuWiki supports a simple markup language of its own, and also a variant of Markdown, both of which try to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible, but often in different ways. This page contains most of the possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. It's laid out in small chunks: first the appearance, and immediately following, what the ````` text/html 2026-04-10T19:26:16+00:00 Otto Hague (osedax@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/wild/wild_food?rev=1775849176&do=diff This topic is part of Bushcraft & Nature. Wild food foraging ---------- ""I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness. " - E. B. White" What is wild food? text/html 2026-04-10T14:58:41+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/wodl/woodland_management?rev=1775833121&do=diff This topic is part of Gardening, smallholding & farming. Tree / woodland management ---------- ""The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." - Nelson Henderson" What is woodland management? Woodland did just fine for millions of years before humans came along, so what’s all this ‘woodland management’ about? Well, the UK used to be completely covered in woodland, so if there was any damage in one area (due to wind, fire, insect attack, disease … text/html 2026-04-10T14:46:53+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/user/c_template?rev=1775832413&do=diff my name (leave the ?250x250) About me My organisations My contact details text/html 2026-04-10T14:45:55+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/user/dave?rev=1775832355&do=diff Dave Darby About me Dave Darby has run Lowimpact.org since 2001, and is co-founder of Stroud Commons and Growing the Commons. I'm writing a book about the commons. See <https://growingcommons.substack.com/p/a-commoners-manifesto-24-articles>. Subscribe to the blog for new articles / chapters. Blog articles: My organisation Growing the commons editorial team. Stroud Commons and Housing Commons. text/html 2026-04-10T14:45:04+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/crco/credit_commons?rev=1775832304&do=diff This topic is part of Economy & finance. Credit commons ---------- "“If the entire world gets a decentralised financial system with inter-connected mutual credits, I think that could be amazingly beautiful, and move us past this ‘Stage 1 Civilisation’ where we actually start to look at what we want to do as humans, rather than just make money.” text/html 2026-04-10T13:49:11+00:00 Otto Hague (osedax@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/user/osedax?rev=1775828951&do=diff Otto Hague About me I'm a PhD researcher studying sustainable agriculture. I forage to supplement my nutrition. Commons-work is something I do in my free time. I'm also the artist who made the logo and the illustrations on the start page. I curate the following pages: text/html 2026-04-09T16:38:07+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/goat/goats?rev=1775752687&do=diff This topic is part of Gardening, smallholding & farming. Goats [Goats] ---------- "“Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.” - Jon Katz text/html 2026-04-08T13:44:11+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/cars/car_sharing?rev=1775655851&do=diff This topic is part of Transport & freight. Car sharing ---------- "“Several Chinese auto and transportation industry leaders are preparing for a future in which people share cars, rather than own them individually.” - Evelyn Cheng" Car sharing can mean: * text/html 2026-04-08T13:14:03+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/cofi/collaborative_finance?rev=1775654043&do=diff This topic is part of Economy & finance. Collaborative Finance (CoFi) ---------- "“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.” - J K Galbraith" What is low-impact money? text/html 2026-04-07T16:59:40+00:00 Simon Grant (asimong@undisclosed.example.com) https://knowledge.growingthecommons.org/doku.php/cofi/start?rev=1775581180&do=diff Collaborative finance We haven't got a “start” page for any of the other topics, so maybe we could just call this page “cofi:collaborative_finance”? (Like all the others?) Or should we perhaps work towards having a start page for each namespace?