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Welcome to my isopod wiki demo. This is an internal space while I finish developing basic infrastructure.

This site is intended to be a sort of illustrated codex and database of hobby isopods (and some other relevant things). It is heavily under construction, so everything from the color scheme of the pages to the templates and actual content should be recognized as either a placeholder or heavily in flux. When the wiki actually has a name, you can consider this no longer the case. Obviously I did not intend to create a bug wiki called "Enkig," but I needed a placeholder and didn't feel like I could put down "IsoWiki" and still respect myself. The site also needs its own look beyond the MediaWiki default. The current look is temporary, I don't intended to keep the Vector skin.

What you are looking at

This is a partially-closed wiki that allows anyone to create an account, but editing is closed even to registered users. Your account will need to be given special permission to edit the species and morph pages, to ensure the information is supplied and vetted by known community experts. Right now the most important work to be done is deciding on uniform page templates and parameters. At Porcellio hoffmannseggii you can see an example of me attempting to define parameters for the species pages. This is very WIP. I have google docs full of notes on what to include on individual species pages and most of it is not represented by the current state of that test page. Once a uniform structure for basic things like genus, species, and morph pages have been set up, alongside the integration of the existing Google Doc species list, mass creation of individual species pages may begin and the wiki will rapidly become functional. It was my thinking that this project could be linked to the AIMG somehow. Obviously, a wiki of the isopod hobby is going to have lots of overlap with that site, but I also believe that the format of the AIMG as is is poorly suited to the functionality of a "codex" of all isopod species and morph

Once some (see below) things are working, this site will allow users without any special permission to create keep/sell lists or little wiki page store fronts on their user pages, easily configurable with hyperlinks to the species pages, and therefore synced with the (hopefully expert-curated) IDs and morph names. Anyone can use this site to make and host their keep list forever for easy sharing with the page link.

Fix Now

• Template:Species (done)
• SSL Cert install (DONE)
• Disable all anonymous editing (done)
• Restrict general users from editing everything but user namespace (done I believe)
  • You shouldn't be able to edit Template:Species. I swear, if you break something in there I will come for you.

Create Page

For the moment you can create a page by linking to a nonexistent page here and clicking on it. "Create Page" buttons are for losers.

• List of Species in the Isopod Hobby
• Crinocheta
• Synocheta
• Paul (isopod)
• Armadillidium vulgare
• Armadillidium maculatum
• Porcellio hoffmannseggii
• Laureola
• Parakermania longa
• Cylisticidae
• Parcylisticus
• Parcylisticus sp. (Russia, Dagestan)