wikish
Current Projects
alaricsp would love to see some git for writers tips and inspirations he can point less-technical folks to!
The Contra Dancer Purity Test, is silliness, but delightful silliness.
Work on the curation of tychoish.com archives.
About Wikish / Intentions
I've been setting up wikis for all manner of things: the cyborg institute, the queer science fiction interest group, a project for work, another fiction related project, and so forth. I didn't have one of my own.
When I was setting this up, and showing off the initial mock ups of the wiki, people asked "so what's it for." I didn't have a great answer, "Wiki things," I said--mostly in jest--without inspiring much excitement in either myself or the friends who might be interested in contributing. The truth is that there are a number of great benefits to having a personal wiki. The ones that spring to mind immediately are:
Fiction: A while back I attempted to post fiction to a website (under the "Critical Futures" banner.) It didn't work out, but I'd like to publish that content. A wiki, particularly one like this seems--at the moment--like the perfect venue for this kind of stuff.
Archives: At the moment, the tychoish.com archives are all generated by me, by hand, in these "collections," based on common topics and themes. While this is fine, I think it makes more sense to have this content be publicly editable.
Email Content: I find messages sent to groups of people with lengthy text sort of frustrating. Better, I think, to write a page in a wiki, and pass around a link to a page in the wiki using IRC or IM (or even with email), and then go from there.
While I'm (quasi)actively working on amending the system I use to build tychoish.com, another unfortunate truth is that rebuilding tychoish.com takes about 3 minutes (because of the size of the site) and is somewhat cumbersome for small changes. While I'm not going to start "blogging" in the wiki, I do think that having a quicker way to push content out to the world in this wiki is something that I'm very much looking forward.
Also feel free to edit this. Have at!
Cheers,