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Beagle 2

2017-11-09T01:01:55Z

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==Overview==
Beagle 2 was a spacecraft lander which failed at landing. It was part of the [[Mars Express]] mission.

[[Image:Beagle2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An artists impression of the ill-fated British Beagle 2 lander on the surface of Mars.]]

:"''HMS Beagle'' was the ship that took Charles Darwin on his voyage around the world in the 1830s and led to our knowledge about life on Earth making a real quantum leap. We hope ''Beagle 2'' will do the same thing for life on [[Mars]]." - Colin Pillinger [[category:Landers]]

Marspedia:Cancelled Donation

2008-10-13T16:24:31Z

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We regret to see you changed your mind about donating to our hosting costs. We trust this was not due to any of our content and hope we have not offended you in any way.

Please feel free to continue using the site.

Marspedia:Cancelled Donation

2008-10-13T16:24:05Z

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Marspedia talk:Cancelled Donation

2008-10-13T16:23:17Z

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Regulars, please feel free to suggest additions to the page.

- [[User:Mdelaney|Mdelaney]] 16:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Marspedia talk:Cancelled Donation

2008-10-13T16:22:44Z

Mdelaney: New page: Regulars, please feel free to suggest additions to the page. - Mdelaney 16:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Regulars, please feel free to suggest additions to the page.

- [[User:Mdelaney|Mdelaney]] 16:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Marspedia talk:Successful Donation

2008-10-13T16:21:32Z

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Regulars, please feel free to suggest additions to the page.

- [[User:Mdelaney|Mdelaney]] 16:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Marspedia talk:Successful Donation

2008-10-13T16:20:51Z

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Regulars, please feel free to suggest additions to the page.

- [[User:Mdelaney|Mdelaney]] 16:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Marspedia:Successful Donation

2008-10-13T16:19:45Z

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Thank you for your generous donation towards our hosting costs.

Marspedia:Successful Donation

2008-10-13T16:19:25Z

Mdelaney: New page: Thank you for your generous donation towards our hosting costs.

Thank you for your generous donation towards our hosting costs.

Marspedia:About

2008-02-27T05:53:32Z

Mdelaney: /* Software Capabilities */

=Differences versus Wikipedia=

There are several differences between Marspedia and Wikipedia in both policy and Wiki software capability.

==Marspedia Policies==

===Languages===
Currently, Marspedia is composed entirely of English-language articles. In time, and when established as a leading source in Mars-based information, Marspedia may be translated into a selection of modern languages to improve accessibility for international users. For now, we ask all users to create articles in English.

===Original Work is Allowed===
We are more open to material types than Wikipedia, and less interested in deleting material. Specifically, Wikipedia enforces a rule that all entries must NOT be "original work". That rule does not apply for Marspedia, we are very happy for you to post original work, provided it is not copyright. Therefore there is not so much duplication between Marspedia and Wikipedia as you might expect. For example, the Marspedia page on '''Insert Appropriate Link Here''' contains interesting material which under Wikipedia rules would be deleted because it is "original work".

Note: Once "original work" has been published on Marspedia, then anybody could put on Wikipedia a link to the Marspedia article, and that might be OK for Wikipedia as it would no longer be original work, and references are usually accepted over there. For those cases where you want to reference it elsewhere, we could arrange for it to become read-only protected.

===No Need to be Notable===

Wikipedia enforces a requirement that all articles about people or organizations must demonstrate why the subject is "notable". There is no such requirement on Marspedia, although there is a general expectation that it should somehow be related to Mars development.

===No Need to be Neutral===

You can advocate positions, but expect to be challenged. Conversely, do not just delete material you do not agree with, but feel free to add a rebuttal.

If you do advocate positions, please do so in a manner that makes it obvious that it is your personal position and not that of Marspedia as a whole. You can do this using the tags <nowiki>'''''{{PersPosArticle}} ~~~'''''</nowiki> or <nowiki>'''''{{PersPosSection}} ~~~'''''</nowiki> which would display something like so:

'''''{{PersPosArticle}} [[User:MikeD|MikeD]]'''''<br>
'''''{{PersPosSection}} [[User:MikeD|MikeD]]'''''

===Commercial Links are OK===

It is perfectly fine to highlight products or services, including both your own and those of other persons or companies. Just make sure it is relevant.

==Software Capabilities==

Marspedia uses the latest stable version of Mediawiki, so in many respects it is very similar to Wikipedia. At the time of writing this, we were running version 1.11.1 while 1.13alpha was the unreleased development version.

===Interwiki===
Interwiki is now supported between Marspedia and it's sister sites Lunarpedia and ExoDictionary. To use interwiki you just use tags like:

:<nowiki>[[exd:Sandbox]], [[lunarp:Sandbox]], [[marsp:Sandbox]] and [[spacep:Sandbox]]</nowiki>.

These would take you to:

:[[exd:Sandbox]], [[lunarp:Sandbox]], [[marsp:Sandbox]] and [[spacep:Sandbox]] respectively.

Other examples would be:

:<nowiki>[[exd:Azimuth]], [[lunarp:Carbon economy]], [[marsp:Mars Express]] and [[spacep:ISDC_2007]]</nowiki>.

These would take you to:

:[[exd:Azimuth]], [[lunarp:Carbon economy]], [[marsp:Mars Express]] and [[spacep:ISDC_2007]] respectively.

'''The interwiki prefixes on the other sites are identical.'''

===Installed Extensions we admit to===

*CategoryTree
*Cite
*ImageMap
*MathStatFunctions
*ParserFunctions
*SpamBlacklist - Should we admit to having this or will that only encourage the idots to waste their time and sometimes ours
*Spellcheck
*articletocategory
*create
*inputbox

We recently added the footnote capability to Marspedia, so that is now the same.

Other differences:

* Wikipedia has some cool citation templates which we might add
* Wikipedia reflist template is not available i.e. {{reflist}}
* the Wikipedia [citation needed] template is not available: {{Fact|date=March 2007}}.

Extensions in the pipeline (maybe):

*Graphviz
*TeX Editor (This is really nice but we had to disable it as there seemed to be a security issue with it)
*WikiTeX (Will take quite some time to install, has a plethora of dependencies)

[[category:Help]][[category:Main Page Maintenance]]

Marspedia talk:Captcha

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My son made a Mars school project that was very thorough and worth sharing. He crafted his project based on a three step development process. Spaceships from Earth, both unmanned round rocket supply ships carrying food, Oxygen and Hydrogen, as well as Nuclear Photogenic reactors, would be send to Mars in conjunction with manned space shuttle spaceships that woudl carry space engineers (not scientists!), to stay on Mars for the sole purpose to setup the Nuclear Photogenic reactors for electricity/heat/CO2 converter, and to dig the trenches to put the temporary living quarters, and also build the initial clear plastic domes (lightweight) to house the future biotanical garden. The space engineers would then leave for another Mars colony construction site or rotate back to Earth and then the initial colonists would arrive to take up the next step of the colony. The colonists would construct/maintain the living quarters, plant vegatation, install distilory machines (all the ingredients to make alcohol on Mars!, for export/antiseptic/fuel/etc.) and also start deep mining activity to build future habitation below the surface (for the ultraviolet radiation is not blocked by Mars atmosphere, infrared is blocked by Carbon Dioxide). Steel production on Mars would also be a big export since Steel is 99% Iron and 1% carbon, which Mars has abundance of. The Nuclear photovoltic engines would provide the heat and electrical energy to support all the colonies power/heat needs. The colonists would also build pressurized containers to store fresh water, waste water, alcohol, ammonia, and compressed air such as methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oxygen, and other medical needs such as nitrous oxide, hydrogen sulfide, etc. Recycling everything from water/kitchen/human waste is essential, and new biotanical gardens will be planted to expediate the conversion of waste back into reusable water/top soil. Supporting the biotanical gardens and creating new garden domes will be a life long career. Building tunnals below the surface will also be a career duty on Mars (reminds me of the movie "Total Recall". Once the colony is sustainable without need for resupply ships from Earth, then Mars can also function as a penial colony for the dual purpose to put hardened criminals to good use working to improve Mars as well as alleviating the population epidemic on Earth. Mars will then focus on its role as space port for exploration/colonization of Jupitor and Saturn moons.

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Marspedia has some sister sites, a general space wiki at '''[http://exoplatz.org Exoplatz]''', a space dictionary at '''[http://exodictionary.org Exodictionary]''', a Moon wiki at '''[http://lunarpedia.org Lunarpedia]''', and scientific fiction at '''[http://scientifiction.org Scientifiction.org]'''.

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== Testing Captchas ==

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User talk:Rfc

2008-02-09T06:11:15Z

2007-05-18T08:17:16Z

Mdelaney:

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