¶ What is?
Urantiapedia is a web for publishing, sharing and collaborating in any content related to The Urantia Book.
¶ Our mission
The key mission we have set for Urantiapedia is:
- Help in dissemination of The Urantia Book revelations throughout the world.
- Allow for a better understanding of the teachings of The Urantia Book.
- Offer the usefulness of linking most of the current knowledge available about the Urantia revelation.
¶ How it works?
It is based in Wiki.js, a powerful and extensible open source Wiki software that is build on top of modern technologies like Node.js and Vue.js. Wiki.js can be used freely by any org to create any type of Wiki.
A Wiki is a webpage maintained and edited collaboratively by a user community. Any registered user, after some validations, can add, modify or delete content, and all changes are saved in a permament historical, so nothing is lost in an accidental removal. Information is stored in a database so it can do the classic actions as massive additions/removals, backups or searches.
To facilitate addition of content, a program called Urantiapedia Tools is under development. This program automates format conversion tasks and helps with content review tasks.
Both Urantiapedia Tools and Wiki.js will receive new functionality as Urantiapedia extends its content types. The developments and the content files are available from the web Urantiapedia at GitHub. This website is public and anyone can make contributions following the GitHub methodology or just sending content through email.
¶ How is it organized?
As in any Wiki the content are pages, each one with a unique URL and a title. These are main contents expected:
- Books, like The Urantia Book, The Bible and other texts related with the Urantia revelations. Each chapter of books is one page in Urantiapedia.
- Topics about any matter mentioned in The Urantia Book. Each topic is stored in a page.
- Articles written by readers, each one a page.
- Images, either drawings or photographs to illustrate concepts of The Urantia Book, each in its own page.
- Diagrams or presentations, also in pages.
- Interactive maps, either in 2D or 3D, showing locations or voyages described in the Urantia revelations. Each map is one page. Maps can be static or contain animations to create flyovers.
- 3D models, each in a page, that can be static or interactive as in maps.
For more information on the content check here: Content
¶ Milestones of the project
For each language to be included in the Urantipedia, all tasks will be carried out in specific milestones:
- Milestone I - The Urantia Book, the Bible and Topic Index
- Milestone II - Books, articles, study aids, diagrams and indexes
- Milestone III - Translator
- Milestone IV - Interactive maps
- Milestone V - Slides
- Milestone VI - 3D interactive models
To find out about the Milestone of the project, check Project Milestones.
¶ Current status
Currently Urantiapedia stands as follows:
- in all supported languages (25): in phase I.
- in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese: between phase I and phase II.
To know more about the current progress of the project check here: Status.
¶ How to collaborate
To collaborate with the project best way is sign up in Blue Fields (https://blue-fields.netlify.app/) webpage, that is a site created to join and organize Urantia Book readers worldwide that want to participate in smart projects, with a good purpose and altruism. Once registered the project team will contact you.
The different roles for Urantiapedia collaborators are:
- Administrators: in charge of maintenance of the web server, the page, bulk load of data, and the only ones with permission to edit The Urantia Book, The Bible and future specific contents. Check more in Admin help.
- Chief Editors: in charge of contributions adding updates and translations to GitHub project that can be later bulk uploaded. Chief Editors also have all the capabilities of an Assistant Editor within the Urantiapedia website. Check Chief Editors help.
- Assistant Editors: with permission to edit certain sections such as the Topic Index, articles, and material not reserved by administrators. They require to pass a validation process to obtain an account on this site. Check Assistant Editors help
- Authors: Assistant Editors who, apart from being able to edit what any Assistant Editor can, are also only editors with permission to edit certain content of which they are authors.
- Developers: with a GitHub account and in charge of the development of the functionality of Urantiapedia Tools and Wiki.js. The code will be hosted in GitHub. Check Developers help.
- Reviewers: in charge of ensuring that the content of the website is correct and comply with rules.
To find out more about the profiles we are looking to collaborate with, check Collaborator profiles.
¶ External links
- Urantiapedia Tools - GitHub project
- Urantiapedia-backup - GitHub project
- Urantia Foundation
- Blue Fields
- Wiki.js