Template:About Marspedia

Marspedia is an official project of The Mars Society and The Mars Foundation, with help from The Moon Society.

• Marspedia policies
  • Languages
  • Original Work is Allowed
  • No Need to be Notable
  • No Need to be Neutral
• Software Capabilities
  • Visual Editor (new!)
  • Interwiki

• Content Licenses
  • Content on Marspedia is Public Domain unless otherwise noted.
  • Articles that have specific content licenses will be tagged as such.
  • Disclaimer: The content licenses used on Marspedia do not apply to other wikis in our Interwiki network.

News about Marspedia

• October 16, 2020 - 2020 Annual Report presented by James Burk & Frank Crossman at the Mars Society Virtual Convention.

• July 3, 2020 - Marspedia Vice Chair Nicole Willett completes new article on Mars 2020 Rover which is featured on the main page.

• May 25, 2020 - Marspedia Vice Chair Nicole Willett completes major article on Extant Life on Mars.

• Mar 24, 2020 - Marspedia volunteer Jim Secosky completes detail pages for each Mars Quadrangle, to further bolster our Mars Atlas.

• Jan 14, 2020 - Marspedia volunteers led by Michel Lamontagne complete first version of clickable Mars Atlas.

• Dec 5, 2019 - 2019 Annual Report on Marspedia, presented by James Burk at the 22nd Annual Mars Society Convention.

• Mar 5, 2019 - The New Category Hierarchy and our custom Category Selection Tool (part of the MediaWiki Visual Editor) have now been rolled out to Marspedia.

• Dec 18, 2018 - James Burk presents the year's progress on the Marspedia 2018 End of Year Call

• Sep 15, 2018 - James Burk and Frank Crossman present the last year's progress on Marspedia at the 21st Annual Mars Society Convention.

• May 7, 2018 - Marspedia Editorial Subcommittee finishes work on a new Category hierarchy covering Human exploration & settlement topics.

• Dec 31, 2017 - The Moon Society recounts the recent history of Marspedia in latest Moon Miners' Manifesto newsletter.

• Dec 31, 2017 - Mars Foundation mentions Marspedia in its End of Year Newsletter.

• Nov 17, 2017 - The Mars Society officially announces its involvement in Marspedia and calls for volunteers to help.

• Oct 20, 2017 - Marspedia Governing Council is formed to manage & improve the wiki.