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Introduction

Welcome to Creoliste. This is a website set up in November 2010 by the author -- me -- aka, WikiSysop, sashi. A Wordpress blog and a full-fledge Moodle were both added in Nov 2010, and the next month I added a "cahier de texte" (a CMS/scheduler for secondary schools) called Chocolat which I used instead of the Moodle. (I had used Moodle back in 2008-2009 on another server I administered for Butterfly Moments Photographie). This wiki was added on April Fool's Day 2011. Another (more photo friendly) blog was added in March 2012 along with the creolist biblioshare (which runs on wikindx).

Overall the major areas treated are English teaching, US history, and some world history. It should soon contain more information about markup and programming to complement the linguistics links and studies on the wiki. Not all content is linked yet, though I do try to keep up with the TOC for texts and and the TOC for games

Origin of the Name

After studying philosophy I decided to study languages, linguistics and lit. I was (and remain) very interested in Creole languages, in part because of my work with Becky Brown and later with Stéphane Goyette, but also because of my friendship with Benjamin Hebblethwaite, and my feeling that Creolization is a useful metaphor for helpful big projects, much better than Gogol. ^^

Nevertheless I would be remiss not to also mention the immediate cause: Luis de Miranda's manifeste de créalisme, which is a very allusive text in praise of ethical building. (a critical review (in French) of his L’art d’être libres au temps des automates) ... ^^

This complex of platforms also had its origin in the Arab Spring, and in things I learned from the forum/wiki agreg.ink.