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AnOtherWiki Update
Jul. 3rd, 2013 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jarandhelSince the March anniversary of AnOtherWiki I haven't really been doing much with it beyond updating the event listings. Frankly, it took a lot of work to meet the target number of articles on time, and I needed a bit of a break and a breather to work on other projects. That break is now over, and I'm again beginning work in earnest on the wiki.
One change, perhaps the biggest, is that AnOtherWiki is no longer hosted on a subdomain of Dreamhart.org but rather has its own domain: AnOtherWiki.org All old urls should properly forward to their respective articles on the new domain; if there are any problems with that please let me know.
Another is that I have, for now, decided to remove the Featured Article section. In time that may be restored, but I think that the random article links and the did you know section adequately showcase the contents of the wiki at present. Besides, with no one nominating articles to be featured the selection has been somewhat arbitrary. I'd like to save featured articles for when it can actually mean something and stand as an achievement for an article to be showcased that way.
I'm also making a push towards getting more community involvement in the wiki. At this time I've sent out some messages asking groups and individuals if they would be interested in writing articles for the wiki about their kintypes. So far I've approached windigowaks, Tuatha de Danaan, Brinn/Kon'yrii, and Leannan Sidhe. I've also asked the fivetrees mailing list if anyone there would be interested in writing an article about Guardians for the wiki, as there has been a good bit of overlap between the two communities in the past. I'll probably be approaching others soon - I'm going to see if I can find current contacts for polymorphs and Rissti, for instance.
We could also use a lot of help cataloging otherkin websites and other resources, writing about influential persons and groups, making a glossary of community jargon and terms from remembered languages, and just generally expanding the content we have. We've planted the seeds of a great encyclopedia by, for, and about our community. Now let's help it grow.
One change, perhaps the biggest, is that AnOtherWiki is no longer hosted on a subdomain of Dreamhart.org but rather has its own domain: AnOtherWiki.org All old urls should properly forward to their respective articles on the new domain; if there are any problems with that please let me know.
Another is that I have, for now, decided to remove the Featured Article section. In time that may be restored, but I think that the random article links and the did you know section adequately showcase the contents of the wiki at present. Besides, with no one nominating articles to be featured the selection has been somewhat arbitrary. I'd like to save featured articles for when it can actually mean something and stand as an achievement for an article to be showcased that way.
I'm also making a push towards getting more community involvement in the wiki. At this time I've sent out some messages asking groups and individuals if they would be interested in writing articles for the wiki about their kintypes. So far I've approached windigowaks, Tuatha de Danaan, Brinn/Kon'yrii, and Leannan Sidhe. I've also asked the fivetrees mailing list if anyone there would be interested in writing an article about Guardians for the wiki, as there has been a good bit of overlap between the two communities in the past. I'll probably be approaching others soon - I'm going to see if I can find current contacts for polymorphs and Rissti, for instance.
We could also use a lot of help cataloging otherkin websites and other resources, writing about influential persons and groups, making a glossary of community jargon and terms from remembered languages, and just generally expanding the content we have. We've planted the seeds of a great encyclopedia by, for, and about our community. Now let's help it grow.
