Wikipedia "Integral Life Practice" Stub?

Here's a wack idea: does anybody with “Wiki-Whispering” abilities want to start a Wikipedia stub article on the topic of “Integral Life Practice,” which other people could then work on and expand? 

With the recent publication of the excellent ”Integral Life Practice” book, it's a topical thang.  I found a few glancing references to ILP in Wikipedia but no actual article on the topic.

I just registered as a Wiki editor - easy to do - and started to gather information on how to start a stub.  It's a little more involved than I thought;  I don't really have time to go through the learning curve on stub-creation right now, but I thought someone with a greater knowledge of these things might be interested in starting it off.  Once a stub article is in place it looks like it would be easier for others to revise and expand the article.

Anyone interested in starting that ball rolling?

spiral out,
Arthur

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I could lend a hand. I've done some editing for the Ken Wilber Wikipedia article and started an Italian version of it, so I guess I qualify as something of a “Wiki-Whisperer”… although I haven't been active there for a few months now.

Any suggestions for some basic concepts (a skeleton outline of sorts that I could then flesh out a bit) or other text to get started with? I don't have the ILP book, yet.

Cheers,
Grey

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Fantastic, Grey!  Since you haven't read the book yet, let me work on some basic text.  It doesn't have to be very long to get the ball rolling.

cheers,
Arthur

Re: Wikipedia "Integral Life Practice" Stub?

Excellent! Sounds like a plan. And now I'm off to order the book….

Cheers,
~G

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Terry Patten has downloads (pdf I believe) of the 1st 2 chapters on his website here .

Cheers,
Doug

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Thanks! I've just downloaded them. :)

~G

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A comment on the ILP book - I purchased this last week - quite like it. All info and basics in one place - very user friendly. I probably have sold 5 copies of this to friends and am using it in many discussions. I think it's a great tool for introducing all this material to those who are on the cusp. In November I'm planning to start an Integral Living Salon in Boise and will use this book as a foundation.

Blessings,

Jayne

P.S. happy to be back on the pod after absence!

Re: Wikipedia "Integral Life Practice" Stub?

And we're happy to have you back, Jayne! Maybe once the stub is in place, you'd like to contribute, since you're so familiar with the book.

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Yeah, definitely. The more the merrier.

And that goes for the Ken Wilber article and any of the other “integral” entries. The more eyes that are there looking out for vandalism (I undid some vandalism in the Wilber article just yesterday) and people who just plain don't know what they're talking about, the better.

Cheers,

~G

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I've written a stub, see below.  Once it's in place, anyone can work on it.  Grey, please let us know when it appears on Wikipedia - and thanks for offering to do the crucial step of stubification!

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Integral Life Practice, often abbreviated ILP, is an approach to personal growth and transformation which aims to account for all aspects of one's being. Unlike the earlier, similar Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) popularized in George Leonard and Michael Murphy's seminal work The Life We Are Given, ILP is based explicitly around Ken Wilber's integral/AQAL framework.

One of the central principles of ILP is that certain practices interact synergistically to produce a greater effect than any of them alone. For example, meditation practitioners find that if also take up a strength training practice, they will progress much faster in their meditation practice.

In 2008, a comprehensive book on the subject was published by Shambhala - Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening, by Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard, & Maro Morelli.

Re: Wikipedia "Integral Life Practice" Stub?

OK, looks like a nice start. Well done, Arthur!

So the article stub is live now here. I made it a “spirituality stub” because I couldn't find an existing stub category that fit better.

I should also point out that not too long ago there was a push by certain editors to aggregate anything and everything “integral” into just a few articles, so a number of the Wiki links in the stub redirect to other articles. I say this, too, because I suspect there's a good chance someone will try to redirect this article, as well.  But we'll have to wait and see. We can possibly prevent that by fleshing the article out as quickly as we can, so that it stands on its own better.

Have at it! Enjoy!

~G

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Me: I suspect there's a good chance someone will try to redirect this article.

Just for example, the “Integral Transformative Practice” article redirects to the “Integral movement” article. 'Nuff said…. :(

~G

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Is it obvious how to add things to a wikipedia entry or is there a specific route?

Juliee

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Adding to an existing article is certainly easier than creating a new one. The main things to be careful of are maintaining a “neutral point of view” (NPOV) and avoiding ”original research”.

Then there are some markup methods, but the most common ones are pretty easy to learn by example. But here are some of the ones that come to mind that you're most likely to need:

• Italics: enclose text in two single quotes (i.e. ' ' italicized text ' ' – I've inserted spaces here to mimic how it will look in Wikipedia edit mode and to make it clear that it's not the actual “quotation marks”, but you should do it without spaces);
• bold: like italics but with three single quotes before and after, not two;
• references to other Wikipedia articles: enclose the term in double square brackets (e.g. [[strength training]] ) – as long as the term used in the article and enclosed in brackets is the same as the title of the article, that's all you need to do (if it's different, use [[spiritual transformation|transformation]], where the first term is the actual article title and the second term is how you want it to appear in the article);
• new section: enclose section title in double equal signs for a main section or triple equal signs (and so on) for sub-sections (e.g. ==Techniques== or ===Shadow work===).

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I forgot the most basic instruction:

To edit an article, just click on the “edit this page” tab at the top of the article. That will enable you to edit the entire article. To edit a specific section, click on the “edit” link in the upper right corner of the section in question.

BTW, the same editing and markup techniques apply to the “discussion” page should you want to discuss the editing of the article with other Wikipedians. Just add a new section (if necessary) and start typing away. Then sign your post by typing four tildes in a row: ~~~~. That will automatically insert your user name and the time and date. (To indent your response to someone else, prefix all of your paragraphs with one more colon than the entry you're replying to.)

~G

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Fantastic, Grey!  Very useful information. 

I shared a few points over at the Integral Life Practice pod here, and directed attention back to this thread.

Hopefully some folks there will be interested in working on this project as well.  The more the merrier!

In fact, now that I think of it, it would be good to spread the word elsewhere - e.g. the 'plex, Integral Life.

cheers,
Arthur

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I've also posted about it in the Multiplex here, and at Integral Life  here and here (as a comment to Terry Patten's blog).

Please spread word of this anywhere you think integralish entities might be interested.

cheers,
Arthur

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Excellent. After I post this, I'll (hyper)stream this thread to FriendFeed (and via FF also to Facebook).

Hmm… forgot what else I wanted to say here….

Oh yeah! The concept of a ”meatpuppet” (from the Wikipedia page):

Meatpuppet is a Wikipedia term of art meaning one who edits on behalf of or as proxy for another editor. While Wikipedia assumes good faith especially for new users, the recruitment of new editors to Wikipedia for the purpose of influencing a survey, performing reverts, or otherwise attempting to give the appearance of consensus is strongly discouraged. A new user who engages in the same behavior as another user in the same context, and who appears to be editing Wikipedia solely for that purpose, shall be subject to the remedies applied to the user whose behavior they are joining.^[1] The term meatpuppet is derogatory and should be used only with care.

Do not recruit meatpuppets. It is considered highly inappropriate to advertise Wikipedia articles to your friends, family members, or communities of people who agree with you, so that they come to Wikipedia and support your side of a debate. (underlining for emphasis mine)

Since what we're doing here could be construed by other editors as an attempt at “meatpuppetry”, I thought it was important to point out that this is a promotion of Wikipedia editing generally, not a call to take up any one specific “fight” or debate. And there is no current debate about the Integral Life Practice article that I'm aware of, and I'm not personally involved in any active debates in relation to Wikipedia articles, integral-related or otherwise (although I have been in the past).

The text continues:

Wikipedia has policies and processes to mitigate the disruption caused by meatpuppetry:

1. Consensus in many debates and discussions is not based upon number of votes, but upon policy-related points made by editors. Newcomers are unlikely to understand Wikipedia policies and practices, or to introduce any evidence that other users have not already mentioned.

Re: Wikipedia "Integral Life Practice" Stub?

Thanks, Grey, pretty interesting to get these glimpses into the Wikipedia world.  My interest in letting people know about this is to get people to flesh out the article, not to support a particular side.  When I wrote the stub I tried to make it as neutral as possible (in accordance with Wikipedia principles).

Ideally, people with an interest in integral matters will ultimately take up other related subjects as well.

cheers,
Arthur

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Exactly. And I do think the stub is properly neutral. It's definitely a good start.

~G

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A lurker is listening here, contemplating the possibility of “challenging” the incredibly biased Wikipedia entry on Colloidal Silver. Still just contemplating. And I am no expert about it, so I doubt anything I say would be valuable, just reporting from books I've read…..

Prolly should get the book-writers, but they are already at risk. Isn't that sad. At actual risk of persecution for distributing the truth, even if it's just the truth as they see it, – based on centuries of information, haha….

Blessings, OM Bastet

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REAL colloidal silver wikipedia entry reformers cut their teeth on ILP articles…just sayin'.  :P

spirals,
Arthur

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Go for it, OM!  Truth is so important, and if you can spread around a more expanded version of it, even as a non-expert, that's priceless!