{"id":678,"date":"2006-07-17T13:45:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2006\/07\/17\/my-victoria-city-style-council-wiki\/"},"modified":"2007-02-14T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T20:20:09","slug":"my-victoria-city-style-council-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2006\/07\/17\/my-victoria-city-style-council-wiki\/","title":{"rendered":"My &#8220;Victoria City Style Council&#8221; wiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I already mentioned on this blog, some time ago I started a wiki about Victoria, BC, called <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/\">Victoria City Style Council<\/a>.  A small number of people have made a contribution or two, but to date it&#8217;s still very much my little project.<\/p>\n<p>The other day it occured to me that I could use this blog, sadly dormant since February (the small awakening during the transfer from Manila to WordPress notwithstanding), to keep track of when I update the wiki and to help me manage the ball of wax I&#8217;m creating over there.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who used to read my blog know that I can jump all over the place &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/\">Victoria City Style Council<\/a> is becoming similarly rangy. The wiki also has a nested structure, which means that articles appear as sub-pages of main headings, and therefore aren&#8217;t visible on the main navigation sidebar.  Yes, I&#8217;ve tagged them, but I still have a sense of impending doom over a lack of oversight as to how things are organised over there&#8230;<br \/>\nHence, what follows is a list of key pieces thus far, and as I add more, I&#8217;ll add links to same on this blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Buildings\">Buildings<\/a> is a useful page, since I added links to all my &#8220;BC Archives&#8221; research bookmarked on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">diigo<\/a> account.  (I still have invitations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/\">diigo<\/a> to give out, and if anyone wants one, let me know and I&#8217;ll send it your way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Sex+in+the+City+%28oh%2C+yeah%21%29\">Sex in the City (oh yeah!)<\/a> is one of those typical Yule Heibel<strong>\u2122<\/strong> specials&#8230;  It is nested under the <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Opinion%2F+Essays\">Opinion\/ Essays<\/a> section, which also includes <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Natural+capitalism+and+cities\">Natural Capitalism and Cities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Style+v.+Substance\">Style v. Substance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Sustain+and+Retain%3A+A+short+history+based+on+the+Upper+Harbour\">Sustain and Retain &#8211; A Short History of the Upper Harbour<\/a> (by &#8220;Aurelian&#8221;), and <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/The+Urban+Cliff+Revolution+is+happening+in+our+western+suburbs...\">The Urban Cliff Revolution is happening in our western suburbs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the above links (except for &#8220;Sex in the City&#8221; and the BC Archives links on &#8220;Buildings&#8221;) are older.  The following are some other newer links, representative perhaps of how this wiki is starting to get rangy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Greens+promote+%22denser%22+communities%2C+call+for+expansion+of+public+transit+via+LRT\">Greens promote &#8220;denser&#8221; communities, call for expansion of public transit via LRT<\/a> gets into highway expansion issues, and appended as a subpage is <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Letter+sent+to+Stantec+%26+BC+Premier+in+support+of+rail+option\">the email<\/a> I wrote on July 15 in support of rail expansion.  And speaking of &#8220;letters,&#8221; I also used the wiki to publish a <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Letter%28s%29+to+the+editor\">Letter to the Editor<\/a> of our local paper, because I&#8217;m 100% certain that the paper won&#8217;t publish the letter.  The &#8220;Letter(s) to the editor&#8221; subpage set-up will probably change over time since I will need to add additional letters eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Future updates:<\/p>\n<p>As long-time readers of my blog might remember, my iBook broke some months ago and since then my camera and computer communication has been non-existent.  It&#8217;s a problem I need to fix since I would like to post photos of current buildings\/ streetscenes on the wiki.  It&#8217;s because of this technical glitch that I also didn&#8217;t see the point in renewing my <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/44124410932@N01\/\">flickr<\/a> account, and I was mortified to see that because of this, all of my older photos (i.e., beyond the 200 allowed on a free account) were deleted.  I had many, many photos of construction sites around town &#8212; all gone.  Thanks (NOT!), flickreenos&#8230;<br \/>\nBack to the wiki: I also added an <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Some+interesting+and+useful+links\">interesting and useful links<\/a> section that will probably see expansion over time, and there is also a page with <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.wetpaint.com\/page\/Victoria+MainStreamMedia+Links\">Victoria MainStreamMedia links<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under construction: a bibliography\/ resources page that links to great articles, books, etc., some of which I&#8217;ll annotate.<\/p>\n<p>All future &#8220;Victoria City Style Council&#8221; blog entries will be tagged wiki_victoria.  Stay tuned for more as it comes online&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I already mentioned on this blog, some time ago I started a wiki about Victoria, BC, called Victoria City Style Council. A small number of people have made a contribution or two, but to date it&#8217;s still very much my little project. 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