AboutThisSystem

This is a free, user driven website in Wiki format, which means that you, as a member of the community can participate in the development of this site by editing and updating at your convenience. Check out the site's many features below and contribute to your heart's content.

Chronology

• December 6th, 2001: system was brought online by MikeGodfrey as welcome.to/GayHalifax using c2.com software - the very first wiki software ever released. MikeGodfrey writes, The wiki was created after fifteen minutes of Perl hacking as a forum for posting announcements and ranting on and on about operator discussion, etc, on the #gayHalifax and #gay_halifax irc channels. I originally populated it with a front page, personal ads, personal profiles pages, and the recent changes page. It grew pretty quickly from there. My goals were simple: I wanted to create some value in my community, and maybe get laid a bit more because of it. I actually met one of my playmates off the wiki. Yay.
• March 2002: DragQueens project started by DanielMacKay as a way to relieve boredom at drag shows.1
• 2002-12: has about 700 pages on line, covering many aspects of Halifax life.
• 2003-12-04: DanielMacKay brings a backup system on line with almost 900 pages.
• 2004-04-20: One Thousand Pages!
• 2004 midyear: sysadmin MikeGodfrey gets hassled by DragQueen AnonymousPerson?01 about content pertaining to her on the website - threatening legal action. Sysadmin duties are handed off to DanielMacKay.
• 2004-10: LocalEvents gets edited for the one thousandth time and the URL changes to http://gay.hfxns.org/
• 2005-04: over 1200 pages on line
• 2005-08: Major cleanup: about two hundred pages not related to queer life in Halifax MarkedForDeletion
• 2006-03: pages MarkedForDeletion in August are actually deleted
• 2006-02: system converted to oddmuse wiki format [1] with a few OddmuseChanges
• 2006-05-11: Encyclopedia overrun by spam. QuestionAsker? "captcha" system installed.

Related Links

• New to this system? Check out StartingPoints!
• You may want to read about WhyWikiWorks
• HitCounter will show you the most popular pages
• The people who help run and improve this system are listed in GayHalifax
• Interested in getting involved? See the TipsForContributors and WikiHowTo as well as the WhatIsWiki and TextFormattingRules pages.
• WikiBackups save every version of every page, forever.
• If you want to AdvertiseTheWiki or come up with some WikiSlogans?, that'd be cool too. We can never get too many users. Tell your friends!
• The GayHalifaxRequests page has requests, questions and answers about this system.
• The ReciprocalLink system provides an index of every page that this page is cited from.
• Pages that are not relevant to the rainbow community in Halifax will be MarkedForDeletion.

Plans

• Add the Google Map extension http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GoogleMap
• add username module and username/passwords for the editors, who will then get "Admin" privileges, using something like the Password module, [2]
• Run system under mod_perl http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse?Using%20mod_perl
• Set up a system so that only a few editors can actually delete pages:
  • Define a new symbol, say, MarkedForDeletionConfirmed
  • Add that to the page BannedContent
  • Add this code: [3] which allows only editors to post that content to the page.
  • Re-enable the "maintenance" action.
• Replace the "Keep" file maintenance system so that versions are kept forever.
• Much better image database
  • Begin adding IPTC data to all pictures
  • write code which can search the IPTC data