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General Information

Issue Areas:	Capacity Development
Country:	USA
Region:	Global
Founded:	2005
Headquarters:	Portland, OR, USA
Website:	https://icannwiki.org

Contact
Email:	info@icannwiki.com
Facebook:	ICANNWiki
LinkedIn:	ICANNWiki
Twitter:	@ICANNWiki

People
Founder(s):	Raymond King
Board Members
Raymond King, Founder, Chair Andrew Merriam, Board Member Dustin Loup, Board Member Judy Song, Board Member

ICANNWiki is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Internet community's collaborative development of wiki articles on ICANN and Internet Governance-related topics. The wiki provides neutral, third-party information for ICANN meeting attendees and Internet citizens at large. It is an open platform governed by wiki values, such as Neutral Point of View, transparency, assuming good faith, and building together.

ICANNWiki is not ICANN. ICANNWiki is a separate non-profit organization independent from ICANN. This website is operated by the ICANNWiki organization and any donations made to the ICANNWiki website are for the ICANNWiki organization only.

The Internet Governance space is known for being highly technical and obscure, making it difficult to develop a general understanding of the issues involved. These issues are pertinent to the daily lives of all Internet users, as well as those on the other edge of the digital divide, still waiting for Internet access. ICANNWiki works with the community to break these complex concepts down into understandable, fully-referenced, fact-based, and neutral articles. ^[1]

Mission

Giving everyone a voice in the future of the Internet.

Work Areas

The ICANNWiki team's time is spread across 4 main areas:

ICANN Meetings - There are 3 ICANN meetings held per year, often in very disparate locations as per ICANN's mandate to be a global organization. Generally, two ICANNWiki team members travel to the meetings in order to interact with the participants. We teach people about the site and its usage, create and edit articles, take photographs for caricatures, and sometimes conduct video interviews. While travel costs and booth materials are one of the project's largest expenditures, we feel the opportunity to work directly with the community, in a face-to-face mode, is important.

Content Creation & Editing - We strive to incorporate information from ICANN and other news sources into existing articles in a timely fashion. If we see that an informational need is unmet, we build new articles from scratch and elicit the community to contribute as well. ICANNWiki insists upon on neutral and documented information and edits pages as they are created or updated by community members. This has always been a significant undertaking for staff, and with the launch of the New gTLD Program, we've seen the site traffic, pages and its activity increase exponentially.

Community Building - Community Building begins with the newcomers. Once we have helped them into the world of Internet Governance, they often return the favor by contributing edits to ICANNWiki content. ICANN veterans and career DNS folks are often the most educated about ICANN topics. We encourage these seasoned participants to help edit articles, assisting those who do not yet have an advanced perspective or understanding. The ICANN community is vast and diverse, so even long-time participants find themselves in need of information about the work being done by other groups at ICANN.

Sponsorship Outreach - ICANNWiki depends on the generous support of sponsors. Without them, we would not be able to do what we do.

Throughout all this work, ICANNWiki is known for putting a fun and unique twist on the content, such as the Caricatures and Playing Cards it produces. We value our creative reputation and are constantly looking for fun and new ideas, and interacting with our community on Twitter, Facebook, at ICANN meetings, and remotely.

Philosophy

ICANNWiki strives to be a valuable and neutral Internet resource containing information on all aspects of the ICANN community. The ICANN community is not limited to ICANN itself, but includes all those associated with, or affected by ICANN's decisions.

ICANNWiki is a global commons that brings all groups of the ICANN community together to communicate and share knowledge in an open, and transparent manner.

ICANNWiki is a unique and valuable information resource specifically addressing the larger world of ICANN. ICANNWiki warmly welcomes any and all community members to join in the effort of global online collaboration and resource creation for the benefit of all!

History

ICANNWiki was originally founded by Raymond King in 2005, with help from Brandon CS Sanders and John Stanton, with the belief that a public wiki could be a real benefit to the greater ICANN community. The project debuted at the ICANN 24 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The site was relaunched in 2010, and a considerable effort has gone into improving articles and standards. ICANNWiki has always been supported by the community, whether from the thousands of people who have contributed to articles on the site, or through company sponsorships. Our wiki is a medium for peer production, where the act of using the site together will create a valuable common asset. This lasting work, made up of the industry's collective intelligence, can then be used to further our common mission of making the Internet a better place to live and work.

Sponsorship

ICANNWiki is made possible via the generous sponsorship of companies in the industry. Read more here.

Logo

The brackets on each side of the logo represent the wiki markup for an internal link and the the sprout on the globe symbolizes the growth of Internet knowledge worldwide.

Projects we're working on

ICANNWiki:ICANNWiki Development

References

↑ This article is entirely user-submitted by the ICANNWiki team & supporters: Ray, Jonah, Vivian, and Andrew.

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+'''ICANNWiki''' is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting the Internet community's collaborative development of wiki articles on [[ICANN]] and Internet Governance-related topics. The wiki provides neutral, third-party information for ICANN meeting attendees and Internet citizens at large. It is an open platform governed by [[ICANNWiki#Wiki Values|wiki values]], such as Neutral Point of View, transparency, assuming good faith, and building together.
-'''ICANNWiki''' is a grassroots, community effort to compile articles on people, companies, and organizations related to [[ICANN]] and the domain name industry. The wiki provides a resource of neutral, third party information for ICANN-goers and people following ICANN from afar as to what is happening within the community. It is an open platform, governed by wiki values such a transparency, assuming good faith, and building together. The project is independent from ICANN, and is based out of Portland, OR, USA.<ref>This article is entirely user submitted by the ICANNWiki team: Ray, Caterina, Andrew</ref>
+'''ICANNWiki is not ICANN'''. ICANNWiki is a separate non-profit organization independent from ICANN. This website is operated by the ICANNWiki organization and any donations made to the ICANNWiki website are for the ICANNWiki organization only.
-== Philosophy ==
+The Internet Governance space is known for being highly technical and obscure, making it difficult to develop a general understanding of the issues involved. These issues are pertinent to the daily lives of all Internet users, as well as those on the other edge of the digital divide, still waiting for Internet access. ICANNWiki works with the community to break these complex concepts down into understandable, fully-referenced, fact-based, and neutral articles. <ref> This article is entirely user-submitted by the ICANNWiki team & supporters: Ray, Jonah, Vivian, and Andrew. </ref>
-ICANNWiki strives to be a valuable and neutral Internet resource containing information on all aspects of the ICANN community.  The ICANN community is not limited to ICANN itself, but includes all thoughs associated with, or affected by ICANN's decisions.
-ICANWiki is a global commons that brings all groups of the ICANN community together  to communicate and share knowledge in an open, and transparent manner.
+== Mission ==
+Giving everyone a voice in the future of the Internet.
-ICANNWiki is a unique and valuable information resource specifically addressing the larger world of ICANN. ICANNWiki warmly welcomes any and all community members to join in the effort of global online collaboration and resource creation for the benefit of all!
+== Work Areas ==
+The ICANNWiki team's time is spread across 4 main areas:
-== More About ICANNWiki ==
+* '''ICANN Meetings''' - There are 3 ICANN meetings held per year, often in very disparate locations as per ICANN's mandate to be a global organization. Generally, two ICANNWiki team members travel to the meetings in order to interact with the participants. We teach people about the site and its usage, create and edit articles, take photographs for caricatures, and sometimes conduct video interviews. While travel costs and booth materials are one of the project's largest expenditures, we feel the opportunity to work directly with the community, in a face-to-face mode, is important.
-ICANNWiki was originally founded by [[Raymond King]] in 2005, with help from [[Brandon CS Sanders]] and [[John Stanton]], with the belief that a public wiki could be a real benefit to the greater [[ICANN]] community.  The project debuted at the [[ICANN 24]] in Vancouver, British Columbia. The site was recently relaunched, and since late 2010 a considerable effort has gone into improving articles and standards. ICANNWiki has always been supported by the community, whether from the thousands of people who have contributed to articles on the site, or through company sponsorships. A wiki is a medium for peer production, where the act of using the site together will create a valuable common asset.  This lasting work, made up of the industry's collective intelligence, can then be used to further our common mission of making the Internet a better place to live and work.
-== Sponsorship ==
+* '''Content Creation & Editing''' - We strive to incorporate information from ICANN and other news sources into existing articles in a timely fashion. If we see that an informational need is unmet, we build new articles from scratch and elicit the community to contribute as well. ICANNWiki insists upon on neutral and documented information and edits pages as they are created or updated by community members. This has always been a significant undertaking for staff, and with the launch of the New gTLD Program, we've seen the site traffic, pages and its activity increase exponentially.
-ICANNWiki is made possible via the generous [[Sponsorship|sponsorship]] of companies in the industry.  Read more [[Sponsorship|here]].
-==Wiki Values==
+* '''Community Building''' - Community Building begins with the newcomers. Once we have helped them into the world of Internet Governance, they often return the favor by contributing edits to ICANNWiki content. ICANN veterans and career [[DNS]] folks are often the most educated about ICANN topics. We encourage these seasoned participants to help edit articles, assisting those who do not yet have an advanced perspective or understanding. The ICANN community is vast and diverse, so even long-time participants find themselves in need of information about the work being done by other groups at ICANN.
-===Assume Good Faith===
+* '''Sponsorship Outreach''' - ICANNWiki depends on the generous support of sponsors. Without them, we would not be able to do what we do.
-Assuming good faith means that we act on the assumption that everyone who makes an edit is doing so to provide relevant, accurate information. No matter the change, we give people the benefit of the doubt and trust they have come to build, not break ICANNWiki.
-Realize that everyone makes mistakes. The nature of Wiki renders it nearly impossible to break and makes corrections easy. By assuming good faith and working together we keep in mind that errors are often unintentional.
+Throughout all this work, ICANNWiki is known for putting a fun and unique twist on the content, such as the [[Caricatures]] and [[Playing Cards]] it produces. We value our creative reputation and are constantly looking for fun and new ideas, and interacting with our community on [https://twitter.com/ICANNWiki Twitter], [https://www.facebook.com/ICANNWiki Facebook], at ICANN meetings, and remotely.
-By acting openly and honestly in accordance with '''Real People''', we demonstrate our good faith in the community.  Working to '''Be A Builder''' is another manifestation of good faith because we trust the community to move forward with our work and to respect our contribution.
+== Philosophy ==
+ICANNWiki strives to be a valuable and neutral Internet resource containing information on all aspects of the ICANN community. The ICANN community is not limited to ICANN itself, but includes all those associated with, or affected by ICANN's decisions.
-===Be a Builder===
+ICANNWiki is a global commons that brings all groups of the ICANN community together to communicate and share knowledge in an open, and transparent manner.
-This value is much more than building wiki pages that are aesthetically-pleasing or highly-informative and useful (although all these are valuable qualities), but building the ways in which people work together to create, and the ways ideas interlace and adhere. The building is as much about the process of building something valuable as it is about the finished product (especially considering we have no defined endpoint).
-'''Be A Builder''' involves building quality content; it is important to keep the other values in mind during the process of building, since creation typically involves creative destruction.
+ICANNWiki is a unique and valuable information resource specifically addressing the larger world of ICANN. ICANNWiki warmly welcomes any and all community members to join in the effort of global online collaboration and resource creation for the benefit of all!
-In order to Be A Builder, it is important not to sweat the small stuff. Remember that '''Change Is Cheap'''. You can perfect the page later, but the first step is to get it started. The idea can be likened to building with Legos, you start somewhere and let the creation take shape, adding and subtracting, constantly '''Refactoring''' what you are building. This will also allow a jumping off place for the rest of the community. Focus on the big picture, knowing that others can, and will, fine-tune your work and ideas.
-To achieve this, click "edit" and "save" often. Doing so creates a visual history of your thoughts and changes that others can use to understand and build on top of your work. Clicking "edit" and "save" a lot also allows you to quickly jump into a document and get your hands dirty.  This is similar to the "Release Early Release Often" philosophy common in the Open Source community:
-People seed a page with an idea that's often vague and poorly worded. It is rough and that's okay, that's expected. It's a beginning.  Other people come along and ''Refactor''' it. There should be freedom from fear that others are going to judge your effort as unworthy, in fact, the expectation is that others will judge your efforts as highly valuable.
-===Change is Cheap===
-This value represents our belief in constructive edits and the process of Wiki. Building off the tenets of '''Be A Builder''' and '''Assume Good Faith''', we arrive at the conclusion that Wiki allows us to embrace change to an unprecedented extent.
-With Wiki, each page is equipped with a complete history of every edit. This allows us to freely plumb the past and move forward knowing that no good idea or innovation is lost. We can feel free to make changes secure in the knowledge that our work will be recognized for its own merit and that it will become the foundation for further effort and construction.
-===Radical Trust===
-"One's words are a gift to the community. For the wiki nature to take whole, you have to let go of your words. You have to be okay with that. This goes into the name, called '''Refactoring'''. To collaborate on a work, one must trust. The reason the cooperation happens is we are people and it is deep in our nature to do t ... \n
-== 9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn ==
-Kids in todays school system are not being prepared well for tomorrows world.As someone who went from the corporate world and then the government world to the ever-changing online world, I know how the world of yesterday is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
- [[http://goodvillenews.com/9-Essential-Skills-Kids-Should-Learn-k87qsp.html 9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn]]
-[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
-== The Limitations of Positive Thinking ==
-Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie. Many persons swear by positive thinking and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases. There are much better ways to get the benefits that positive thinking allegedly provides.
- [[http://goodvillenews.com/The-Limitations-of-Positive-Thinking-m3ZrTe.html The Limitations of Positive Thinking]]
-[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
-== Cat Saves Owner Hours After Adoption ==
-A newly-adopted cat repaid his owners loving gesture earlier this month by saving her from a medical emergency just hours after he was brought home, the Green Bay Press Gazette reports.
- [[http://goodvillenews.com/Cat-Saves-Owner-Hours-After-Adoption-ixHpp7.html Cat Saves Owner Hours After Adoption]]
-[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
-== 7 Essential Books on Optimism ==
-Every once in a while, we all get burned out. Sometimes, charred. And while a healthy dose of cynicism and skepticism may help us get by, its in those times that we need nothing more than to embrace lifes promise of positivity with open arms. Here are seven wonderful books that help do just that with an arsenal ranging from the light visceral stimulation of optimistic design to the serious neuroscience findings about our proclivity for the positive.
+==History==
+ICANNWiki was originally founded by [[Raymond King]] in 2005, with help from [[Brandon CS Sanders]] and [[John Stanton]], with the belief that a public wiki could be a real benefit to the greater [[ICANN]] community. The project debuted at the [[ICANN 24]] in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- [[http://goodvillenews.com/7-Essential-Books-on-Optimism-6pgcLt.html 7 Essential Books on Optimism]]
+The site was relaunched in 2010, and a considerable effort has gone into improving articles and standards. ICANNWiki has always been supported by the community, whether from the thousands of people who have contributed to articles on the site, or through company sponsorships. Our wiki is a medium for peer production, where the act of using the site together will create a valuable common asset. This lasting work, made up of the industry's collective intelligence, can then be used to further our common mission of making the Internet a better place to live and work.
-[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
+== Sponsorship ==
+ICANNWiki is made possible via the generous sponsorship of companies in the industry. Read more [[Sponsorship|here]].
-== Why Have Good When You Can Have Better? ==
+==Logo==
+The brackets on each side of the logo represent the wiki markup for an internal link and the the sprout on the globe symbolizes the growth of Internet knowledge worldwide.
-As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better. Steve Maraboli
+== Projects we're working on ==
+* [[ICANNWiki:ICANNWiki Development]]
- [[http://goodvillenews.com/Why-Have-Good-When-You-Can-Have-Better-PdMtIo.html Why Have Good When You Can Have Better?]]
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
-[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
+[[Category: Organizations]]
+[[Category:Loose initiatives]]