Invitation

The original version of this text was posted to the OrdoSolis forum to invite people to participate here.

This should become an all-purpose invitation for the interim Wiki…

Hello.

For some time now, German players have been gathering all kinds of information on live role playing in Germany in a wiki style repository at http://www.larpwiki.de/.

A wiki basically is a web site that any visitor can modify. The most popular example probably is Wikipedia.

Tilmann Holst started the german site about seven months ago and so far we have accumulated over 650 Topics on a wide range of LARP subjects, from Lists of suppliers to essays on game philosophy.

One long-term goal (or should I say dream) that Tilmann mentioned fairly early on was the idea of an international Larp wiki not unlike the international features of Wikipedia that can be observed from http://it.wikipedia.org/, http://de.wikipedia.org/ and so forth.

An international wiki could help LARPers to come together internationally, exchange experiences and ideas and make contacts to play together.

This idea has gained fresh momentum from the Larp Revolution article but at this point, it raises more questions than answers.

First and foremost are the tasks of

• finding people who are willing to participate both in technical planning and eventually in providing content in different languages and
• finding out if there are projects similar to LarpWiki.de in other countries that would be willing to participate in an international project.

We have created an english language interim wiki to start gathering ideas and information. If you’re interested, feel free to visit http://www.larpwiki.org/ and add your comments.

Cheers, Ralf

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