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User:Josh Parris/Bootstrap

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WikiProject Bootstrap

The scientist James Lovelock, best known for his Gaia theory of life-mediated regulation of the atmosphere, has proposed compiling a start-up manual for civilization, beginning with how to make fire, moving on through all of science and technology, from subjects such as ancient genetic design (domesticating plants and animals by selective breeding) to current genetic design (cloning).

Bootstrap is related to Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0

Bootstrap is a project to ensure that articles in Wikipedia contain sufficent information to Bootstrap a civilization up to a certain level of technological mastery. Articles should contain sufficient explicit information that a person, armed only with a copy of Wikipedia, could receate and use technological artifacts from that age. Note that we are not shooting for Featured Article status, but that'd be fine if that happens.

Current goal

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Bootstrap's current technological goal is:

Stone Age materials, unexploited techniques

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The Stone Age is the first of the three prehistoric ages, prehistoric ages are defined where there is no written history. However, papermaking and impression printing are both technologically feasible with Stone Age materials. Should we be including these? Money could have be implemented with paper notes.

Future goals

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Future goals, in order, are:

  1. Bronze Age - create and populate article Bronze Age tools and techniques; coins.
  2. Iron Age - create and populate article Iron Age tools and techniques
  3. Your suggestions here