It's a wacky marketing ploy, but somehow it's irresistible -- I'm talking about PBWiki's peanut-butter-sandwich logo and their assertion that creating a new Wiki is as easy as a peanut butter sandwich! Being both a Wikipedian and a confirmed consumer of peanut butter, I was hooked almost instantly. Especially since the entry-level service is FREE!
The result is SeppalaWiki, backed by the resources of the Seppala Siberian Sleddog Project, conceived as a permanent Wikipedia-style Seppala knowledge base.
http://seppalawiki.pbwiki.com - SeppalaWiki
There are several advantages to the Wiki as a web format: its markup is easy and undemanding, it creates its own directory structure as text hyperlinks are added and new pages created from them, more than one person can work on the same Wiki, even at the same time, it can grow gradually and painlessly with pages constantly open to editing. By the way, the word "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian expression "wiki-wiki" meaning fast or quick.
SeppalaWiki is open to public view, but its editing functions are password-protected to prevent vandalism. However, if anybody's crazy enough to want to help write a Seppala (and legacy-sleddog in the broadest of terms) encyclopaedia, just ask and I'll be happy to give you a password -- provided you're serious about contributing. It IS a whole lot of work, because every page introduces new link-terms that in turn deserve their own pages. To give an example: Leonhard Seppala --> Poland Spring --> Walden-Seppala challenge race --> Chinook Sled Dog --> Byrd Antarctic Expedition -- etc. etc. etc., and almost any entry can be extended infinitely in any desired direction. Take a look at Wikipedia if you don't understand what I mean:
Wikipedia - "Seppala Siberian Sleddog" article
Posted by ditkoofseppala at May 3, 2006 06:23 PM