Reviving lolcow wiki

[awoo]

With the news of the recent opening of the ethan ralph wiki and server troubles seemingly dying down, I want to ask community members and staff if there is interest in reviving a general purpose lolcow wiki, which has existed on and off over the years.
The primary reasoning is the same as before: keeping info organized more than highlights, which often includes discussions, and the OP, only editable by the thread author and mods. (I have a small bit of experience with managing mediawiki installations and editing pages/templates, but not enough to volunteer admining.)

 

[GHTD]

i could do it

just need writers

 

[g55c]

I'd be willing to help get this project going.

 

[Sprate Header]

I'd be down to help write some articles

 

[GHTD]

Question: would you guys prefer Null run it or have someone else put it up?

I could do it.

 

[awoo]

Question: would you guys prefer Null run it or have someone else put it up?

I could do it.

I can run a site independently but it would likely be the target of attacks. So I lean towards Null reviving his old wiki.

 

[Null]

We tried this before and it did not work. Nobody wants to work for free. You get volunteers and then maybe a couple stick around but they're heavily invested in their own topics.

What you're really saying is "Who wants to help me reboot Encyclopedia Dramatica?" and you're not really thinking that question through all the way if you're just like, "yeah I can do that no problem".

I'm not going to endorse or promote any 3rd party site because that will 100% cause some fucking problem down the road.

I want wiki-editable OPs for the new forum software but that's way down the road.

 

[Abowaffen]

I want wiki-editable OPs for the new forum software but that's way down the road.

Neat.
I believe OPs need to be updated more regularly and consistently. Maybe there could be a one month site-wide event to fully update all OPs of popular cows? Also, ED is still up and running if anyone is interested in working on that place.

 

[Null]

You are always free to start a new OP project with users from a thread. I have to edit the database to get the OP in place but I'll do it if you're willing to do the OP.

 

[awoo]

Nobody wants to work for free. You get volunteers and then maybe a couple stick around but they're heavily invested in their own topics.

Doesn't this already apply to the jannies of the forum? Editable OPs sounds analogous to a wiki anyhow.

 

[TheSkoomer]

Whatever it is, just please make it Tor-friendly.

An actual .onion address would be nice too.

 

[IrishGuy088]

Not a bad idea.

But you're probably going to get doxed or some gay shit if you are involved in this project.

 

[somecryptoneet]

But you're probably going to get doxed or some gay shit if you are involved in this project.

Wolf girl responsible for the death of several troons, still goes awoo.

 

[Ronnie McNutt]

wikis always start out nice and active but overtime it rots into an inactive shithole that nobody wants to do anything with it

 

[Account]

I was lurking when the original lolcow wiki started and I remember everyone volunteering to edit it before it became a wasteland.
It was never integrated into the website at all, and it was a daunting amount of work because Wikis and Forums are opposites. Wikis are collaborative document writing where the goal is a polished page while a forum is all about discussion where people append their own thoughts to a topic.

I think an expanded rating system with more content-specific ratings (like "Good Source") along with ways to search posts by rating (like the highlight feature but more customizable and refined) would help more than trying to get people to edit wikis. Making posts and rating posts requires much less effort than trying to make a good looking wiki page. Maybe tags that aren't used for memes or a public bookmark system could help.

We could ideas guy all day about possible forum features but it seems that the only two people working on the new forum software are an overworked sysadmin-programmer-culture-critic-podcaster and a schizophrenic cryptocurrency day trader so these conveniences are far down the road anyways.

 

[awoo]

Award wiki janny stickers and badges to encourage participation
The wiki page I was working on (some of Tommy Tooter history) was in construction but going along well before the wiki shut down

 

[Peewee Herman]

We tried this before and it did not work. Nobody wants to work for free. You get volunteers and then maybe a couple stick around but they're heavily invested in their own topics.

What you're really saying is "Who wants to help me reboot Encyclopedia Dramatica?" and you're not really thinking that question through all the way if you're just like, "yeah I can do that no problem".

I'm not going to endorse or promote any 3rd party site because that will 100% cause some fucking problem down the road.

I want wiki-editable OPs for the new forum software but that's way down the road.

how far down the road? i am still waiting for my god damned lolcow wiki!