I was expecting to find a dominant science fiction wiki, and I am surprised that it doesn't show up on the first page or two of Google. There do seem to be franchise based silos that are effective, Star Wars and Star Trek of course, but anything that's been on TV is a candidate.
http://scifi.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page May be what I want, but it is hard to tell. It only has about 1300 articles and the last entry was made 15 December 2009, so it's not very active. I think that if Nick is as good at social networking as he says he is that we can do better. http://wiki.feministsf.net/index.php?title=Main_Page Looks like an excellent site. It has over 4000 articles with entries as recently as 2009-12-28 and 2009-12-29. I get the impression it is a bit high-brow for a site dedicated to such low literature as SciFi. I still think there is room for one-stop shopping for science fiction and imaginaria synopses, reviews, literary criticism, and TRIVIA. Wayne Eddy wrote: > I've done a fair bit of wiki work over the last couple of years, using > both Wikimedia & Wikidot wikis. > > e.g. http://www.lgam.info > > Building up a wiki from scratch is a big job, and I think it would be > a good idea to do a bit of research into existing science fiction > related wikis to see if there are any existing ones that might be > worth contributing to. > > I did a quick search and found the following, but I am sure there are > 100's of others out there. > > http://www.modernscifi.com/tiki-index.php > http://www.galaxiki.org/wiki/ > http://scifi.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page > > Apart from the wikis that I have created personally, I think the most > interesting future related one that I have stumbled across so far is > the accelerating future wiki. > > http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/wiki/Main_Page > > Regards, > > Wayne Eddy > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Nick Arnett <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Trent Shipley <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Nick Arnett wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > I did not send the original to the list. Feel free to > forward this > > to the list. > > > > I'm partial to MediaWiki. > > > > > > I have installed MediaWiki here: > > > > http://www.nickarnett.net/sfwiki/ > > > > We can create a domain name for it and point it there when > we're ready > > to go public with it. > > > > I guess there's no real need for admins... > > POWER, I have been denied privilege and POWER!! Oh, the agony. > > > What wouldja like? ;-) > > Seriously, though, the wiki gives everybody lotsa power... I'm not > familiar enough with Media Wiki to see (a) what administrators > might do via the web interface and (b) exactly how to create 'em. > It's a php associative array, the docs tell me. > > I'm happy to keep the discussion here for now, to get it going. > > Any other experience wiki-ers here? > > Nick > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > > _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
