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WikiWrit: The Holy Book Anyone Can Edit
Your God Has Abandoned You
Okay. Bad news, and no real way around it. The trouble with spam has gotten so bad (and our regular parishoners so few) that unfortunately, I don't see any chance of this recovering.
I'm flooding the Earth
I've decided to lock the entire thing down. No edits. Nothing.
Build an ark, 40 cubits in length
However, the page will still be accessible. If anyone wants to take over the project on their own wiki space, they can feel free to copy all of our pages to their new Wiki and I'll redirect the domain name to them. I don't want to see this die - it's fun, and a damn good idea; it's just that with a 9-to-5 job and other projects, I really can't give this the attention that it deserves.
Sorry.
David Morgan-Mar, Our Lego God.
David's agreed to link back to us from [Irregular Webcomic] again because of the charity. Thanks again to David for the traffic and publicity!
Ye Editable Table of Contents
All Books
This Week's Featured Sermons
Some of these are awesome and some of them need to be re-written. Some of them are both! If you know more about the 100% factual basis that these completely true verses refer to, head on over and improve them.
- Original Sin
- George W. Bush
- Book of Barbarians
- Ragnarök
- Seven Drinking Buddies of Cthulhu
- Life EULA
- Raptor Jesus
- Eightfold Path
- Song of Sarcasm
Vote for Pablo, Jesus's Pet Goat
The Pope Commissions Ye Create!
- The story of Brock Samson and Delilah.
- HowTo:Move a Mountain.
- A catalog of Contradictions in the holy text and a testimony as to it's Infalliability.
- Effing the Ineffable
- The Book Of Misprints
Did you know...
... that while there is debate on the exact value of bajillion, most scholars place its value at 1000 jillion?
... that some of the first animals to be wiped out were the Spear and the Rock? (Genesis)
... that thou may not eat Werewolves?
... that thou shall not point out that that was only nine condiments? (Commandments)
... that Bigfoot not like being turned into ape-man, Bigfoot want to be human again? (Atheism)
... that if you create an article and do not place a link to it in Ye Editable Table of Contents that you are violating the True commandment
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: I'm looking for a wiki about biblical scholarship, not editable holy text itself.
A: Ah, you're in the wrong place. Try http://www.Wikible.org.
Q: I'm looking for a wiki about Christian theology.
A: Again. Wrong place. Try http://www.wikichristian.org.
Q: I'm looking for a silly wiki about secular things
A: Boy, doesn't anyone have a map? http://www.uncyclopedia.org/ , past the file cabinet, down the hall, take a left, go up three flights and you're there.
Q: Are you David Morgan-Mar, creator of Irregular Webcomic?
A: No - but it seems a few people are mistaken on this point, and David's a really cool guy who is probably most responsible for this site's continued success.
Here's the skinny: I created WikiWrit shortly before hearing of the poll for "WikiBible" and other wikis - but a friend of mine noticed that WikiWrit was very similar to that concept, and told me to e-mail David. David thought it was cool and linked to it on his blog and web comic.
Q: So who are you then?
I was going to remain anonymous, but, hell, screw it, I like the attention.
My name is Brian Boyko, and I am a 27 year old new media specialist and editor of [Network Performance Daily]. WikiWrit was started as a lark, but David linked to it, and within the first 24 hours of it's creation, we've gotten over 1000 visitors. That's crazy. And I think it's only going to get bigger.
Not bad for something I started because I was bored and the roads were iced over.
Q: What is this?
A: WikiWrit is either a massive social experiment, a sincere and honest way for a believer to express his feelings toward the main figure of his religion, a great blasphemy for which the creator of this Wiki will either burn in Hell or be killed or both, or a straight-up satire of the infallibility of scripture.
Q: Which one is it?
A: It can be a dessert topping and a floor wax for all I care - whatever keeps you from stoning me to death.
Q: Point taken. So, what do you mean by social experiment?
A: Okay, well, take Wikipedia. Infighting aside, it's quite a remarkable source of information. Thousands of people edit it every day, so you'd think it would be a chaotic mess of competing agendas. It IS a chaotic mess, but it seems that the overwhelming agenda of all of the Wikipedioids seems to be that Wikipedia is a valuable resource for knowledge and that the number of people who want to make it true and good would outnumber the number of people who want to give people grief. But the mission of Wikipedia is primarily scientific - the idea to come to the best conclusions and record the facts based on the evidence available. "Creatio Ex Nihilo"
Religion isn't really based on evidence. So I was wondering what would happen if you took a holy text, and let anyone edit it. Surely if both science AND religion were "equally valid paths to truth" the end product would resemble the Creatio Ex Nihilo of Wikipedia. The idea is to start with one piece of text - Genesis - and just let people go at it.
Q: But I'm not Judeo-Christian. I belong to another religion and want my views to be recorded as well.
A: That's the beauty. What I've put up is only a starting point. You can add in information about Mohammad, Joseph Smith, Bob, Eris, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Q: Wouldn't that get confusing?
A: Well, that's the experimental part.
Q: Aren't you just asking to get thrown in Hell?
A: That's the beauty part. All I have to do is add a line to WikiWrit that says that I'm not going to Hell no matter what I do. Also, I get a bajillion dollars.
Q: Bajillion isn't a number.
A: And that wasn't a question. Besides, God says bajillion IS a number if it says so in WikiWrit.
Q: So, what you're saying is, if I don't like something someone wrote in WikiWrit, I can change it?
A: Absolutely. Just remember that the next guy can come along and change it back - or change it to something completely different. So if you're planning on using WikiWrit to base your spiritual beliefs around, better have a quick hand on the reset button.
Q: So how do I start?
A: Simple - just click on Genesis, read it, make the changes or create a page. As more pages and books are added, we'll keep adding more books to the front page. Just one request - so that people can find things easier, if you create a page, please add it to Ye Editable Table of Contents
Q: Are you a publicity whore?
A: And how! Seriously though, the more people on WikiWrit, the better, so please [Digg] and [Reddit] this site. Tell your friends, family and others in your local congregations.
Q: What about the licence?
A: GNU FDL. Mostly because it's funny-sounding. "Gnufdl!"
Q: How do I contact you?
A: If you're a member of the press, a curious fan, or have additional questions, please feel free to contact me at wikiwrit@gmail.com. I like Gmail's spam filter.
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