Ekopedia
Founded2002
FounderJean-Luc Henry
FocusRural and Indigenous Communities
Location
  • Quebec, Canada
Area served
Worldwide
MethodEcology and sustainable development
Websitefr.ekopedia.org


Ekopedia is a free (Creative Commons), collaborative (wiki) encyclopedia project dedicated in providing answers and spreading practical knowledge related to environmental sustainability.

History

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Created in Quebec in December 2002 under the name of Newlimits.org, the project was initially in French and under Free Art License. It was using TWiki wiki application for collaborative edition and in 2004, community decided to migrate to MediaWiki.

The project got over 1000 articles December, 10 2006[1]. It went multinlingual in the following years until it went offline in mid 2015.

Its french version is back online as of february 2017, with almost 2500 articles [2].

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