Creolista! talk:Community portal

Introduction

Welcome to Creoliste. This is a website set up around 2011 by the author -- me -- aka, WikiSysop, sashi. It contains all sorts of information that I don't want just anyone googling my real name finding out that I know about. ^^ It also contains a lot of work relative to 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 that are hidden in plain site here. ^(Notably some notes I took on the middle voice while reading Eugenides' Middlesex)^.

Origin of the Name

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

But I would be remiss in not also mentioning Luis de Miranda: manifeste de créalisme, a critical review (in French) of his L’art d’être libres au temps des automates ... ^^

At the time of this site's creation there was great turbulence in the world as I recall. It appears that this wiki was added on 01/04/2011, during the Arab Spring.

What can users do?

Search, read, and propose content at a blog, a bibliography, a Wiki, or in simple HTML content (stories, essays, etc.). Any contribution here must be your own work, work in the public domain, or work that is licensed as CC-BY (with proper attribution).

Many have suggested that wiki-spaces are inherently drama mosh-pits if you open them up to the braying mob. Certainly the pages detailing Wiki-speak and my own user-page testify to that tendency towards drama at the English Wikipedia. I do not believe that this is necessarily so, but here, I don't want any of that; nor do I want to have to use the block button. As a result, at least for the time being contributions to the wiki are only accepted by email.

This page is a trivial garden, where there are some pretty flowers. It is a garden I would not mind seeing grow in coordination with other smaller gardens, as such I am currently buzzing around seeing what other wiki-experiments there are out there.

What will visitors find soon?

a simple Wiki -> HTML converter, perhaps. ^^