In which I throw down some thoughts about how the Wiki might look and what it might contain.
Any comments are welcome and may even be incorporated into the actual Wiki ITSELF.
Content:
Three types:
Drug info (most important obviously)
Business
Social
Business to include BLUA, guidelines, how-to advice. Possibly forum guidelines? Lot of duplication, but could be an ideea. Any other messages from senior staff. Announcements? Probably not, as by their nature they tend to be time-specific.
Social to include histories of each forum. Profiles of BLers? Why not? It's not like we'd run out of space. Need standard Wiki rules, like citations needed, no flaming. Notable events timeline (board and social). Links to personal websites if wanted. Famous BLers? (who didn't care about being out? Probably not).
Drugs: very similar to Erowid - can we just grab their stuff? Or from Wikipedia, seeing as it's freely available? Specific drugs. Drug policy - worldwide. Drug news. Harm reduction techniques.
Process:
Identify priority for drugs which lack much public information (mephedrone? 6-APB? Ask OD and PD and ADD mods). Ask drug forum mods to identify experts/best threads to create pages. Rinse and repeat.
Process for social: identify forums and ask mods to suggest members, or members to volunteer, to write a history. OR start off with a generic BL history. Maybe that's an idea, people could build forum specific pages off that later. Warts and all is probably better even if we piss people off including me.
Process for business is easier, just ask admins to send me stuff.
Any comments are welcome and may even be incorporated into the actual Wiki ITSELF.
Content:
Three types:
Drug info (most important obviously)
Business
Social
Business to include BLUA, guidelines, how-to advice. Possibly forum guidelines? Lot of duplication, but could be an ideea. Any other messages from senior staff. Announcements? Probably not, as by their nature they tend to be time-specific.
Social to include histories of each forum. Profiles of BLers? Why not? It's not like we'd run out of space. Need standard Wiki rules, like citations needed, no flaming. Notable events timeline (board and social). Links to personal websites if wanted. Famous BLers? (who didn't care about being out? Probably not).
Drugs: very similar to Erowid - can we just grab their stuff? Or from Wikipedia, seeing as it's freely available? Specific drugs. Drug policy - worldwide. Drug news. Harm reduction techniques.
Process:
Identify priority for drugs which lack much public information (mephedrone? 6-APB? Ask OD and PD and ADD mods). Ask drug forum mods to identify experts/best threads to create pages. Rinse and repeat.
Process for social: identify forums and ask mods to suggest members, or members to volunteer, to write a history. OR start off with a generic BL history. Maybe that's an idea, people could build forum specific pages off that later. Warts and all is probably better even if we piss people off including me.
Process for business is easier, just ask admins to send me stuff.