Tea Wiki

[brandon]

Yes, I know this has been mentioned 1,000 times with little traction.
I have decided to ignore this and prop up a MediaWiki install for our nefarious purposes.

http://smarterits.com/~brandon/teawiki/ ... /Main_Page

The homepage is pretty bare, but I have started filling in the Sencha page under Green Tea as an example. I would like to provide a page or so of objective coverage on each major tea, followed by discussion on brewing, vendors, and links to blog reviews of the folks here.

Right now anonymous editing is wide open, but I would like to eventually restrict it to trusted editors like the folks here.

[brandon]

The URL is of little consequence, if this holds any interest I will register a nice domain.

[Mary R]

Didn't ABx lay similar groundwork too at one point? Unfortunately that fell around the time I got hella busy in October/November, so I sorta back-brained it.

[brandon]

Last I heard he wasn't actively doing anything with it.
I have spent less than an hour on this, but I would obviously like to see it take off. A more permanent, better formatted, better searchable compilation of our wealth of tea knowledge? Feel free to bikeshed/ignore instead, I won't feel that bad.

[Sydney]

Well, for now, work proceeds on this one.

In theory, merging content should be a moderately straight-forward process should such a thing seem desirable.

The best thing about wiki is the ability to build on the contributions of enough people that when some are too busy, the rest can continue.

[Space Samurai]

This does seem to be something that keeps piquing peoples interest.

For my part, blogging more than satiates any desires I have to write about tea, so I wont be much help.

[brandon]

Space, if you are not interested in editing, I would love to use some of your photos if you do not mind it.

(I am licensing all content on the site under creative commons "non commercial attribution". This means "use anything here, but don't sell it or try to pass it off as your own.")

[Sydney]

Fair enough, space.

When it comes to such matters, something can be a great idea without magically compelling everyone to personally invest.

I just believe we can manage a critical mass on this project and/or merge with another one that turns out to be so similar in scope that redundancy would be a bad idea.

[Space Samurai]

Sure thing, Bhale, though I'd like Another Tea Blog to get credit for photos used if possible.

I re-read what I said on that last post, and I apologize if it seemed short. I got distracted by something and hit post before re-wording it in a more fiendly manner.

[brandon]

You will certainly be credited if I use any pics.
Rock on!

[Wesli]

Everything looks good from here...Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land...

[Chip]

May it live long and prosper!!!

I hope I am worthy enough to contribute.

[Salsero]

I don't know for what this is worth, but there is an enormous document that is essentially someone's "Introduction to Tea" book that I printed out and read when I first got interested in tea. Some of it may be subject to disagreement, but it seems it might be worth getting permission to take chunks of it into the TeaWiki or at least reference the thing. Maybe it is not really of any use, but I'll reference it here just in case.

http://www.246.dk/teaminifaq.html

[scruffmcgruff]

...a more fiendly manner.

YARR

[brandon]

By the time you read this, the new url should be http://wikicha.com/
If it does not work yet, check again in a few hours.