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Disaster Animal Relief Network (DARN)

"the wiki encyclopedia for disaster animal relief"

Contents 1 Welcome 1.1 Mission 1.2 Goals and Objectives 1.3 Editorial Viewpoint 1.4 Document licensing 1.5 Examples

Welcome

Mission

This wiki is a neutral gathering place for people involved in rescue, relief, and reuniting animals caught up in disasters such as hurricanes, tornados, floods, fires, and earthquakes. The planning time frame is for the next disaster. This wiki fosters communication between animal welfare communities separated by geography and interests. Groups may use the resources on this wiki to add new channels of communication.

Goals and Objectives

DARN goals are to:

1. Provide a meeting place for different animal groups to share plans & resources
2. Introduce the benefits of wiki technology and other internet technologies
3. Create a knowlege base for sharing information to:
   1. Coordinate requests for assistance between groups
   2. Categorize links to resources on the internet
   3. Document national, regional, state, county and local resources
   4. Prepare for disasters
      1. Train relief workers
      2. Store supplies
      3. Transport routes and drivers
4. Assist animal groups create their own DARN wiki pages to:
   1. Provide contact information and description of the group
   2. Provide a portal for group members to enter the wiki
5. Assist animal groups create their own wiki sites:
   1. Available at editthis.info Wikia.com or other compatible wikifarm.
   2. The preferred WikiEngine is MediaWiki, the one used by Wikipedia
   3. Other WikiEngines are good choices, but Wikipedia offers a huge knowledge base of useful public domain text markup that can easily be copy/pasted.

Editorial Viewpoint

This wiki will follow the model created by Wikipedia and will become the "Wikipedia for disaster animal relief". This means the Neutral Point of View (NPOV) is the preferred editorial viewpoint. Controversy will be directed to the talk sections of the wiki. If debates become toxic, they will be pushed further into quarantine sections. Posts that are libelous will be removed.

Document licensing

This wiki will follow the same license guidelines as the one at Wikipedia. This will assure that content from Wikipedia can be used legally and that this wiki is not held liable for misuse of materials.

Examples

For examples of wikis used for disaster animal relief and rescue see the mature KatrinaHelp.info wiki or the pre-release NDARS wiki at Wikia.com