My friend perigee has started what has the potential to be a really cool project: a queer wiki. Here’s the notice:

Hi folks, this is an announcement of a new collaborative Wiki-based effort to provide a non-commercial, shareable information resource for anyone who needs one, written by as many different kinds of queer and allied persons as are interested in helping out.

My friend jhames came up with the idea recently, and we would like to be as inclusive as possible, inviting as many people who are interested in participating as we can get involved.

The Wiki is based on a pretty substantial server with a high bandwidth, so we’re not too concerned about high traffic, but the caveat is that because we’d like to be careful with the contributor population and discourage spammers and trollers, we’re vetting each new user account by hand, so if we’re a little slow to start, we apologize, but we hope to make this a good experience for all.

If you’re new to Wikis, I encourage you to try it out anyway. It’s usually a good learning experience, and the way Wikis work, they encourage collaboration, discussion and sharing, so we’re hoping for good things here.

If you are interested in helping out, or in just seeing how far we’ve gotten and how far there is yet to go, come on down to queer101.malcolmgin.com. At present we intend to remain an entirely private organization, and as far as I’m concerned there should be no ads or other leeches on your time or ours.

Feel free to forward this notice to anyone you think might be interested. If you do, please don’t edit it unless you can’t avoid it, and please drop by my LJ and let me know where you reposted or forwarded it to.