About
(4 January 2006)
Around last May I started a wiki called wikiveg, for anything and everything having to do with veganism, animals, animal rights activism, and related concerns. The project stalled as I got too busy with school, and was preoccupied with other things over the summer. I’m hoping to get it going again this year.
I was partly inspired by the way Food Fight’s site has a blog on the front page… blogs are just much more interesting than a static page. Wikipedia manages to have an interesting front page by having lots of things that are constantly being updated (featured articles, news, “did you know?” bits), but you can’t really do that until you have a community of people working on the wiki. Hence this blog. I’ll largely be writing about what’s going on on the wiki and what’s gong on in the worlds of veganism and animals, which will be connected most of the time.
The guy I’m hosting with, Gabriel Wicke, said he could get a blog set up to load on the front page for me, but that probably won’t be for another couple weeks.
I’ve felt pretty sad about not working on wikiveg for the past several months. It got to the point where I knew it wasn’t growing and that I had a ton of work I had to do, which made me avoid it more, which worsed the problem. I especially felt bad about letting other contributors down, especially Tim from the German-language VeganWiki, and a man named David who wrote a completely kick-ass amazing article on kosher slaughter. I hope I can win them and contributors like them back in the coming year. I think I’m mostly through the problems that caused me to be a spotty, unreliable, AbsentLeader for the past half year; mostly I’ve just had way too much on my hands either in terms of academic work, or the emotional turmoil that comes with being a college student whose worldview gets drastically changed or reinvented every three months. (Seriously, it’s exhausting.) But I’m mostly at the end of the academic pressures, and I think finally I’m finished with having energy- and time-consuming worldview changes.
Right now I’m in Florida till Saturday and then Honduras until the 16th. I’ll probably do a little work on the wiki and another blog post or two before Honduras.
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