What topics and articles does Wikiciv cover?
Wikiciv is a wiki manual for building civilization from scratch, and its content is organized around the practical knowledge needed to rebuild basic infrastructure and technology. According to its main page, the site currently has 329 articles. Topics are grouped into three broad categories — Food and health, Crafts and techniques, and Concepts — plus a list of articles flagged for expansion. You can browse by category or search for a specific entry.
Main topic categories
The main page lists the following groupings:
Food and health
- Agriculture and Horticulture
- Food Preservation
- Hunting, Fishing and Foraging
- Livestock and Animal Management
- Medicine and Healthcare
- Soap Production and Hygiene
- Water Management
Crafts and techniques
- Carpentry (forestry, woodworking)
- Glass Production
- Leatherwork
- Light, Candles and Lamps
- Metalwork (ore, forge, charcoal)
- Pottery (what, where, how)
- Stonework
- Textile (weaving, sewing)
Concepts
- Energy: Production and storage (Energetics)
- Games and Entertainment
- Literacy and Numeracy
- Measuring and Calibration
- Orientation and Transport
- Politics and Economics
- Social Sciences and Philosophy
- Writing and Communication
Featured articles
The main page highlights three featured articles, each with a short definition:
| Article | Summary from the page |
|---|---|
| Charcoal | A lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. |
| Fire | The rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. Requires the fire triangle of oxygen, heat, and fuel. |
| Water | An inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, nearly colorless chemical substance; the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms. Vital for all known forms of life despite providing neither food, energy, nor organic micronutrients. |
Articles that need expanding
The main page also maintains a list of articles marked for expansion, which gives a sense of the range of specific entries on the wiki:
Acetone, Adhesive, Bellows, Biomass, Bloomery furnace, Boric acid, Bow drill, Canning, Cement, Club, Coal, Combined cycle plant, Copper-doped zeolite, Coriander, Crops, Cyanide, Diamond, Energetics, Ethylene glycol, Fiberglass, Food preservation, Generator, Graphite, Gravel, Hammer, Hand drill, Heat, Helium, Hydrocarbon, Ice, Leather, Lime concrete, Limestone, Linen, Match, Methanol, Methane gas, Mud, Nickel, Nitric acid, Nylon, Oil, Panning, Paper, Petroleum, Phosphorus, Pig iron, Potassium, Potassium Nitrate, Pottery, Pump.
How to find a specific topic
- Browse by category — use the main topic groupings above to narrow down by domain (for example, Metalwork under Crafts, or Water Management under Food and health).
- Search for an entry — if you already know the term you want (e.g., "charcoal," "pottery," "nitric acid"), search the wiki directly.
- Check the expansion list — if a topic you need is listed under "Articles that need expanding," the page exists but may be incomplete.
Wikiciv runs on MediaWiki, the same software that powers Wikipedia, and the main page states that anyone can edit it.