What is Old-Rite Russian Orthodox Christian Wiki?

• It's a wiki.
• It's a community. Personal pages and opinions are welcome as long as they are marked and in the proper place.
• It's a place for Old-Rite Orthodox Christians to share their knowledge and perspectives.
• It's international in scope.
• It's Old-Rite Orthodox.
• It's an encyclopedia aimed at producing articles that can be used freely (with attribution), especially for Christian education.
• It has many audiences—it's a resource for people who are not Old-Rite Orthodox as well as Old-Rite Orthodox clergy and laity.
• It's a discussion forum with attention to the development of documentation to help clarify / articulate some fundamental issues in Church life.
• It has a specific bias.

Although Old-Rite Russian Orthodox Christian Wiki contains many links to external sites, it aspires to be much more than a human edited directory. Encyclopedia-like articles are considered a valuable part of this enterprise. The most fundamental aspect of all this is the consolidation of a "knowledge landscape" within Old-Rite Orthodoxy.
OrthodoxWiki shines in the way difficult and/or divisive topics are worked out, articulated in descriptive pro and con formats, complete with an outline of different thinkers and their arguments. A solid descriptive overview of some of these controversies simply does not exist, at least in English. In cases of disagreement, Old-Rite Russian Orthodox Christian Wiki hopes to push its users towards a constructive conversation on polemicized issues which threaten to, and in fact do, divide Old-Rite Orthodox Christians.
What Old-Rite Russian Orthodox Christian Wiki is not

• It is not a church body.
• It is not an official voice of Old-Rite Orthodoxy—among other things, this means that official documentation from particular Church officials does not constitute binding editorial policy for Old-Rite Russian Orthodox Christian Wiki. In other words, Old-Rite Russian Orthodox Christian Wiki regards itself as a beneficiary of the freedom of the press granted by the country of its server's residence.
• It is not a substitute for your priest or bishop.
• It is not perfect—Old-Rite Russian Orthodox Christian Wiki is a work in progress. It's also a communal effort, which means that not every member of the community would agree with every statement made in an article. If you see that something is lacking, please step in and fix it! You may also simply note your disagreement on the article's discussion page.
• It is not a battleground—you are free to state your opinions, but do not threaten, harass or intimidate those with whom you have a disagreement. Rather, we encourage everybody to approach matters in an intelligent manner and engage in polite discussion.
• It is not Wikipedia.We link to Wikipedia, and a number of our articles find their initial source in Wikipedia, but Old-Rite Russian Orthodox Christian Wiki is completely unaffiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.