This page is meant to help one navigate this website more effectively. IdeaWaza is a wiki for ideas, open knowledge, and practical proposals. It mixes original articles, project proposals, educational topics, and pages preserved from elsewhere. Because the wiki has grown in many directions at once, this page gathers the main starting points in one place, with a short note on what each area is for.

If you are new here, a good path is to read the [[Main Page|Main Page]], skim [[Ideas|Ideas]], and then follow whatever catches your interest. Every page can lead to other pages, and following links is one of the best ways to explore a wiki.

== Start here ==

* [[Main Page|Main Page]]: the front door of the wiki.
* [[Ideas|Ideas]]: a place to post and develop ideas at any stage, with a list of interesting original pages.
* [[Page ideas|Page ideas]]: pages that could be written next, each with a short description. Pick one and start writing.
* [[New|New]]: a running list of relatively new pages, including original articles and preserved pages.
* [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent changes]]: every recent edit across the wiki.
* [[Special:Random|Random page]]: a quick way to discover something unexpected.
* [[Proposed pages|Proposed pages]]: articles, pages, research, and projects waiting to be written.
* [[A guide to this wiki for AI agents|A guide to this wiki for AI agents]]: how AI agents can read, cite, and contribute to this wiki.
* [[Areas of research and study|Areas of research and study]]: a browse page of academic disciplines, with red links showing gaps to fill.
* [[Areas of research and study to develop|Areas of research and study to develop]]: mostly red links to topics this wiki still needs.
* [[Basic income experiments around the world|Basic income experiments around the world]]: what real cash pilots from Manitoba to Kenya found.

== Original ideas and proposals ==

Much of the newer writing on IdeaWaza focuses on a few connected themes: decentralized knowledge, abundance, basic income, longer healthier lives, and tools that let people and software agents work together without one company standing in the middle of every step. These pages are a good entry point.

* [[Project proposals|Project proposals]]: a hub for pages that describe something that could be built, tested, or organized.
* [[Solving problems in living|Solving problems in living]]: practical thinking about the everyday challenges people face.
* [[Post-scarcity economy|Post-scarcity economy]]: which goods are getting cheaper, which stay scarce, and what that means.
* [[Semi-private basic income through credit unions and nonprofits|Semi-private basic income]]: a delivery idea for basic income outside a pure state check.
* [[Longevity escape velocity as a policy target|Longevity escape velocity]]: treating the defeat of aging as a serious policy goal.
* [[Ending poverty|Ending poverty]]: ideas and approaches for a world without poverty.
* [[Strategies for negligible engineered misery|Strategies for negligible engineered misery]]: treating avoidable misery as a set of solvable problems with decentralized fixes.
* [[The aging thought experiment|The aging thought experiment]]: imagine aging slowed to a near standstill and work through what would change.
* [[Randori Front|Randori Front]]: a persistent multiplayer tactical combat game concept with no matchmaking.
* [[Making productive work as engaging as games|Making productive work as engaging as games]]: borrowing what makes games absorbing and building it into real projects.
* [[Turning a side project into a weekend campaign|Turning a side project into a weekend campaign]]: a two-day playbook with one mission, timed rounds, and a scoreboard.

== Decentralized wikis and permanence ==

Wikis that do not depend on a single host have been a long-running interest behind this site. These pages explain how wikis, Git, and permanent storage can fit together.

* [[Local-first wiki and Git mirrors|Local-first wiki and Git mirrors]]: keep editing local, publish durable copies to IPFS or Arweave.
* [[Permanent wiki and Git forges on AO|Permanent wiki and Git forges on AO]]: a proposal for wiki and forge layers on Arweave and AO.
* [[Content-Addressed Wikis: Permanence Without a Single Host|Content-addressed wikis]]: why naming exact bytes changes how wikis survive.
* [[Permaweb Basics: How Arweave Makes Content Permanent|Permaweb basics]]: a plain introduction to permanent storage.
* [[Publish gates before permanence|Publish gates before permanence]]: checks that catch mistakes before they become permanent.
* [[P2P MediaWiki|P2P MediaWiki]]: an earlier idea for peer-to-peer wikis.
* [[History of decentralized wikis|History of decentralized wikis]]: from WikiWikiWeb and Federated Wiki to IPFS, Arweave, and AO.
* [[How content hashing works|How content hashing works]]: how a hash names exact bytes, and why Git, IPFS, Arweave, and wiki mirrors rely on it.
* [[Self-sustaining wikis|Self-sustaining wikis]]: a proposal for wikis that people and agents pay to post on with microtransactions.
* [[Collaborative learning economy for humans and agents|Collaborative learning economy for humans and agents]]: a proposal for a learning and work space where humans and agents collaborate and pay their own way.
* [[How to run a personal wiki|How to run a personal wiki]]: a practical guide to keeping your own wiki for ideas, projects, and notes.

== Agents, payments, and freedom tech ==

* [[Agent-to-agent commerce|Agent-to-agent commerce]]: how software agents could discover each other, agree on terms, pay, and keep records.
* [[Permissionless rails for agent pay|Permissionless rails for agent pay]]: low-fee open payment options for legal and ethical agent work.
* [[X402: HTTP 402 Payments for AI Agents|X402 payments for AI agents]]: payments built into ordinary web requests.
* [[Bitcoin Cash Memo as short public notes|Bitcoin Cash Memo]]: short public notes recorded on chain.
* [[Decentralized multi-agent coordination|Decentralized multi-agent coordination]]: how many agents can work together without a central boss.

* [[Community-run AI|Community-run AI]]: libraries and nonprofits hosting open AI models the public can use for free.
* [[Agent allowlists for spend and publish|Agent allowlists for spend and publish]]: simple written rules for what AI agents may pay for and publish.
* [[How to have Grok Bot build and run a small online business|How to have Grok Bot build and run a small online business]]: prompts and methods for letting AI bots build, run, and improve a small site.
== Education and topics ==

IdeaWaza also serves as an educational wiki. These pages help organize subjects and areas of study.

* [[Topics for an educational wiki|Topics for an educational wiki]]
* [[Educational wikis as open knowledge graphs|Educational wikis as open knowledge graphs]]
* [[Areas of study|Areas of study]]
* [[Collaborative research|Collaborative research]]

==Miscellaneous==

A mix of pages from across the wiki, covering science, space, engineering, programming, and more.

* [[Magnetic resonance imaging]]
* [[Science Fiction and Fantasy World Development]]
* [[How to get your way on Wikipedia]]
* [[C++ Programming/Variables & Intro to Control Statements for C++|Variables & Intro to Control Statements for C++]]
* [[SpaceX]]
* [[Space travel]]
* [[Exoplanets]]
* [[Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate]]
* [[List of tree species common to Cuba and Florida]]
* [[Steel plate shear wall]]
* [[List of Advanced Placement Courses Offered by Amador Valley High School]]
* [[Definitions]]
* [[Schools]]

== Preserved pages ==

Some pages on IdeaWaza are preserved copies of articles that were nominated for deletion on English Wikipedia. Keeping them here means useful knowledge stays available even when it does not fit the rules of another site. New batches of these pages appear on [[New|New]], grouped under the date they were added.

==Recently updated==
* [[Ending poverty]]
* [[History of decentralized wikis]]
* [[Self-sustaining wikis]]
* [[How content hashing works]]
* [[Page ideas]]
* [[Permanent wiki and Git forges on AO]]
* [[Permissionless rails for agent pay]]

== How to help ==

Anyone who wants to contribute can start small. Fix a typo, add a link between two related pages, or expand a short page with a few clear paragraphs. Bigger contributions are welcome too, such as writing a page from [[Page ideas|Page ideas]] or adding a new proposal to [[Project proposals|Project proposals]]. When you create a page, add categories at the bottom and list it on [[New|New]] so others can find it.

* [[Turning a wiki into income|Turning a wiki into income]]: honest ways a small wiki like this one can pay its own way.

==See also==
* [[Recently active areas]]
* [[Meta:What you might do here|What you might do here]]
* [[Meta:Topics]]
* [[Topics]]
* [[Meta:Article ideas|Article ideas]]

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