Bahaikipedia:About
From Bahaikipedia
Bahaikipedia is a free, multilingual, open-content collaborative encyclopedia on the Bahá'í Faith. It exists to make all factual information about the Bahá'í Faith easily accessible in a single location. The name Bahaikipedia is a portmanteau of Bahá'í, wiki and encyclopedia, though it more accurately came to existence as: Bahaiwikipedia.
As of today, there are 2,153 articles in English and our contributors have made 25,094 edits to the project since it was started in March of 2007.
Bahaikipedia runs on a software called Mediawiki, a tool that allows for collaboration and participation from anyone with access to the internet. Mediawiki is open source and is the software that runs the Wikipedia projects. If you're interested in contributing don't worry, you won't break anything (we hope) and you can't actually delete anything. Each page has an associated page history which lists all edits in reverse-chronological order.
In every article, links will guide you to associated articles with additional information. This is especially beneficial if you are new to the terminology found in the Bahá'í Faith, inter-linking allows us to maintain depth without losing focus of the topic.
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[edit] Sister projects
Bahaiki means Bahá'í Faith and collaboration, whether it's developing encyclopedic content, writing news, uploading images, or translating letters.
[edit] Commons
Commons or Bahaikipedia Commons is the most important project to Bahaikipedia because it stores all the media used in the encyclopedia. It allows the different language versions of Bahaikipedia to share the same images, and gives visitors an overview of media that relate to the Bahá'í Faith.
[edit] BahaikiNews
With multiple independent publishers of Bahá'í News and news about the Bahá'í Faith showing up in mainstream media the purpose of BahaikiNews is to gather those stories in a single location. Its second purpose is to promote the publishing of news about the Faith from different countries to represent an accurate global view of the activities in the Bahá'í Faith around the world.
[edit] BahaikiText
As the Bahá'í Faith grows across the globe material from the Faith is translated and published into as many languages. BahaikiText takes on two roles, at the main domain, BahaikiText.org, the work is to gather and link to all existing translations of a work. At each language versions of BahaikiText, currently only English, en.bahaikitext.org, the work is to add the full text of books, letters and messages about the Bahá'í Faith. We do this so we can provide inter-wiki links back to Bahaikipedia articles to explain topics of the text. Give a read through the 2008 Ridván message from the Universal House of Justice for an example.
[edit] NewBahai
The newest addition to the Bahaiki family, NewBahai.com, is designed to be a resource for individuals who have recently converted to the Bahá'í Faith and are looking to establish themselves on a firm ground of what it means to be a Bahá'í, and what to expect adapting to a new religious community. This project is just starting and is only available in English, though it has the same potential to develop into a multilingual project as Bahaikipedia.
