StructuralWiki:Contribute

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Are you new to StructuralWiki? Here you will find information about StructuralWiki and how you can contribute to the project.

Why Structural Wiki?

There is already Wikipedia. What are then the benefits of having separate StructuralWiki? While Wikipedia is the most extensive wiki and online encyclopedia, Wikipedia policies and guidelines state that it can contain only encyclopedic content. Material not meeting this criterion will be removed. It can be more suitable for another Wikimedia project or for its own wiki, such as the many wikis hosted by Wikia. (Wikia is a for-profit company run by Jimmy Wales, the founder of non-profit Wikipedia). And this is where StructuralWiki comes into play. The goal of StructuralWiki is to be more than just encyclopedia, with the key focus on structural and civil engineering. The vision of StructuralWiki to create a community where all participants (students, researchers, designers, specification writers, software developers, construction professionals, etc.) can freely contribute content of interest to the community.

In addition, majority of respondents to two survey launched by BridgeArt.net in 2007 expressed relatively strong interest in wiki specifically for the architecture, engineering and construction community:

• Survey 1 - distributed by email, 250+ respondents
• Survey 2 - survey targeted to Civil Engineering major at faceboook.com