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« Wiki.Post-Apocalyptic.Info – Wikified List Of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction - Part 2 | Main | KILOTØN Shots »
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Nov082009

Wiki.Post-Apocalyptic.Info - Wikified List Of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

A few weeks ago, Chanda Phelan, as part of her master's thesis research, compiled quite a list of written works of post-apocalyptic fiction. She was immediately inundated with suggested additions, which got me thinking that a wiki would be the way to go to keep a list that like that fresh.

Of course, there's already a List of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction on Wikipedia, but that list mixes all media types (I'm mostly interested in books and stories), and the formatting needs a lot of work.

So, because I had some ideas about how I would want a wiki list of PA fiction to look, and because I wanted to play around with wiki software, I borrowed the Wikipedia content and started my own version of a wikified list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction at Wiki.Post-Apocalyptic.info.

It's definitely still a work in progress. Editing wikitext tables by hand sucks, and the graphical FCKeditor has major stability issues, at least on my system. I was able to bring over all written works items, and get them into a single sortable table, but I'm still working on filling in the general apocalypse type, some publication dates, and notes. Even though it's not quite ready yet, the point of a wiki is that anyone viewing it can help me out and fill in some of the missing info, so I wanted to release it into the wild and see what happens.

I'd appreciate any suggestions, comments, or opinions, or of course, anyone who wants to jump in and make some edits or additions.

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