Thanks to perigee I now have my very own wiki, so I can keep all my factual writing in one place. He set up a copy of MediaWiki on his site for me, and I have spent the entire day engrossed in it. The achievement I am most proud of is figuring out how to make template infoboxes, but I’ve been doing a bunch of other stuff too. I have put my Wikipedia contributions in - that was easy, of course, because it was going from MediaWiki to MediaWiki. I’m now working on my Everything2 writeups, though, and that is going to take a lot longer. I have several hundred articles there, and I put a few of them up with complete links (most of the hardlinks are getting sent to WikiPedia articles) and graphics and everything. I then figured out that doing that would make the port process very slow and so I’m now just grabbing each writeup and dumping it into my Wiki straight. I drop it in Notepad first, replace all the [ with [[ and the <em> with ” and so forth, and then I save it with a category of “Wikify.” It’s fun so far, believe it or not. By the way, I have turned off anonymous editing and new user signups for my wiki, because I’m the only one I want messing with it - at least for now.

I suspect the hardcore geeking I’ve been doing for the past month or so has been an attempt to escape some of the harder thoughts I’ve had floating around in my head. I’m looking forward to getting my new games soon, too.

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.