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ESP Wiki:About

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Four key points to remember about ESP Wiki:

  1. You can edit it. Please do! No account is necessary. It uses the same wiki system as Wikipedia. (See: Help:How to make a good contribution)
  2. We gather facts and studies, and we also gather questions, theories, and even curious ideas found on other forums. The goal is to open these to examination so that, eventually, they will be proven or disproven.
  3. If you spot an error, please remember point #1!
  4. The pages are not statements from ESP or any person or organisation.

How to be efficient: Document things as you work

The hope is that while activists work on anti-software-patent campaigns, they will note things on ESP Wiki. By doing this, we consolidate our work while we do it, reducing the problem of information loss when people leave campaigns.

The relationship of End Software Patents (ESP)

Members of the End Software Patents (ESP) campaign are the principal contributors, and often work seven days a week to monitor quality, but they are not the only contributors, and do not systematically check all edits.

The overall direction of ESP Wiki is monitored to ensure that it is a tool for campaigns against software patents, but that does not mean that every page is immediately corrected. We want to encourage broad participation, and quickly reverting or changing the contributions of newcomers can be frustrating. Instead, we focus on dialogue and trying to help new contributors to better express and back up their contributions.

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