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34 industry resources, verified rather than listed

Not "here are some links". Here is every link, checked on a stated date, with what is actually dead. As of August 2026 the community's own canonical indexes are wrong: five dead things are still listed as live by awesome-wardley-maps, by Wikipedia, and in two cases by Simon Wardley's own resources page.

That is a low bar and a real service. A site that verifies every link and publishes the verification date is immediately more useful than the community's index — so this one does, on a schedule, and publishes the run.

Every page below verified 2026-08-23 — status, licence and links checked against the source on that date, and re-checked on a schedule since. The runs →

Three ways in

A flat A–Z is the wrong primary navigation for 34 things when a reader's actual question is "where do I start". Three routes, then the list.

If you only look at ten

In this order.

1. Wardley Maps — The primary source, and the chapter that establishes why before how. The CC BY-SA 4.0 licence on it is what makes the whole ecosystem exist.
2. Learn Wardley Mapping (LearnWardleyMapping.com) — The pedagogy the book lacks. The free reference alone — especially the four-phase doctrine grid — is the fastest route from confusion to competence.
3. Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones (talk) — Forty-eight free minutes of Wardley doing the thing. The highest-conversion artefact in the list: people who bounce off the book do not bounce off this.
4. OnlineWardleyMaps (OWM) — You do not understand mapping until you have drawn one. Also the format standard the whole ecosystem targets, so learning its DSL is not tool lock-in.
5. awesome-wardley-maps — The community index, and the only major resource under CC0 — so also the only one you can freely reuse as a base. Five of its entries are dead; ours says which.
6. WardleyMaps.com — Home of Wardley Mapping 101 — the best free fifteen-minute end-to-end worked example, one sustained case study rather than a tour of features.
7. What do Wardley maps really map? A settler writes (critique) — Read the strongest objection early, before over-committing. The consensus-versus-evolution argument will change how you use the technique — and it is the argument this site's agent guardrail is built on.
8. Wardley Maps in Mermaid (wardley-beta) — The most consequential recent development: maps in git, in pull requests, in documentation, with no tool at all. See the gallery.
9. Simon Wardley's map repository — 147 real maps across 22 industries. Twenty of these teach more than two more chapters. ⚠️ Licence contradictory — link, do not mirror.
10. Where the map ends: understanding Wardley maps' limitations (critique) — The four structural limitations, stated fairly. The thing that stops mapping becoming a religion.

All 34, by category

Every row links to a page carrying the same nine fields: what it is, its limitations stated plainly, maintainer, start date, status in August 2026, exact licence, the best single link, a dated screenshot where one could be captured, and the pre-written attribution string. A page with no limitations section is marketing.

Primary source 5

Learning 5

Tool 10

Community 4

Reference & derivative 10

Before you copy anything

The Wardley ecosystem is CC BY-SA. This site is CC BY. Those do not mix cleanly. ShareAlike is viral: publish an adaptation of CC BY-SA material and that page must itself be CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoting and linking are fine; adapting is what binds you. Six resources carry a flagged or contradictory licence and are link-only until resolved — the full treatment, including which six.