Jack Wiki

[sapphirekeep]

So I've spent the last few days researching and mulling over the idea of doing a Jackcentric fic index, wiki style. Since my brain works in obsessive spurts, that means I've spent about 12 to 16 hours a day on this idea since I thought of it. At this point, I really want to do it and am forcing myself to hold back until I hear from others. I've

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[euphrosyne2u]

Keep in mind I own a webarchive that I cannot manage myself...so I have to ask this (probably dumb) question.
EditThis sounds like the better option since it allows adult content (and we NEED that with Jack fics)...but can there be a Wiki 'site' that SENDS people to the ficlist in EditThis?
Does that make any sense?
Are these (either) costly cause it sounds almost like a hosting situation.

[bedawyn]

Yes, they're both ad-supported free wiki hosts. The ads on both are pretty unobtrusive, IMHO. Paying for a wiki host isn't possible for me right now. One other option -- I actually have a good bit of space already that I'm not using that I could theoretically install a wiki on without needing a separate host. But it would require technical know-how that I don't currently have, about Apache and MySQL and such. But it's a possibility for the future.

I'm not sure what your other question is asking. At both, we'd be a wiki site hosted alongside other wikis. Theoretically, we'd be either jackcentric.wikia.com or jackcentric.editthis.info, but both would allow us to register jackcentric.org or whatever else and use that instead. (I've been thinking of Jackcentric as the working title -- it gets the point across -- but of course we can discuss that too.) We wouldn't be allowed to create a Wikia page that exists just to point people elsewhere, but we could certainly promote an EditThis site in all the other ways it's appropriate to promote a

[euphrosyne2u]

EditThis does seeem the better solution. Like I said I cannot imagine Jack-fics not having adult content (well I can I just don't want to

[bedawyn]

No dumb questions! We would have to guard against stories creeping in that didn't really belong there, but as the long as the main page specifically identifies it as a Jack Harkness index, I don't think the other guys would be much of a problem (of course, crossovers would be welcome). I suspect more of a problem would come from stories where Jack is present but just not that important. Those are the stories that create the need for this already -- all the stories that are labeled Jack/Ianto or Jack/Ten or whatever, but once we start to read them they turn out to be Ianto/Jack or Ten/Jack or otherwise just using Jack to tell a story that's really about someone else.

I'm probably going to go ahead and set the wiki up later today, while there are at least two of us excited about it. :-) We can worry about getting others interested later, after there's something to actually show them.

[geminia905]

I've not used anything other than pbworks, so I can't give much more input than to say just go with the one you feel most comfortable with.

[bedawyn]

Both of these use MediaWiki, so I was thinking more of the policies and how they would affect the direction of the Jack-wiki. I tried to look at pbworks, and if I didn't vaguely remember it being called pbwiki in the past, I wouldn't have even known it was a wiki! The web site is all set up as some sort of business solution software thing now.

[geminia905]

Yeah, I know. The service really hasn't changed that I can tell, but I'm not really impressed with the new corporate layout on the main page. Luckily we got our wikis set up before the change over.

I think that's where the Lupin/Snape wiki is so it might be okay policy-wise, but I'm not really suggesting it for this purpose, it's just the only one I've had any practical experience with. ;)

[bedawyn]

I don't know if you're getting e-mail comments from the other thread; just so you know, it's up and running and ready for stories now: http://jackcentric.editthis.info. :-) Please join us!