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Welcome to my isopod wiki demo. This is an internal space while I finish developing basic infrastructure. If you ended up here through Google somehow, enjoy snooping around but disregard information found here until the site is operational. Until then, every word on the site was typed by essentially just me so typos and factual errors are bound to be everywhere at this point :)

This site is intended to be a sort of illustrated codex and database of hobby isopods (and some other relevant things like Springtails and Myriapods if enough help comes along). 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. But so far I can't find a skin that isn't terrible, and I dread trying to figure out how to make one myself. Someone help.

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 permission to edit the species and morph pages, to ensure the information is supplied and vetted by reliable people with deep community knowledge who are comfortable with editing wikispaces. 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 morphs.

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.

Photos

So, there are some photos here now. The intent is for every photo on the site to either be completely free to use, or free to use with credit provided directly below, on or near the photo. This may not be true of photos currently on the site. I am avoiding any photography from people like Nicky Bay until they are specifically spoken to and an agreement is reached on watermarks, resolution etc. Photos that may already be here early on are generally ones I know or assume can be reuploaded without anyone minding. I won't be so loose with this when the site really gets going, I just can't be anal about the photo attribution quite yet while I am still one person (although I have been trying). If you have a photo here that you would like removed, of course reach out and I will take down whatever you need.

Goals

• Customizable userpages for everyone that serve as hosts for easily-linkable hobbyist profiles and keeplists.
• Reinforce hobby consensus regarding nomenclature, IDs etc.
• Easily proliferate information on reclassifications.
• illustrated database of all hobby species.
• Promote line management in hobby by tracking lines of species/morphs on their pages.
• Make "lore" of hobby species more accessible.

Create Page

Since creating pages is done by linking to the nonexistent one. "Create Page" buttons are for losers.

• List of Species in the Isopod Hobby
• Template:Armadillidae
• Template:Cubaris
• Crinocheta
• Paul (Porcellio scaber)
• Armadillidium vulgare
• Cubaris sp. "Nospecies"
• Armadillidium nospecies
• Porcellio nospecies
• Porcellio hoffmannseggii
• Armadillidae
• Cubaris
• Giant Isopod No. 1 (Bathynomus sp.)

Template Creation

• Its zoosection is Diplocheta, which means it belongs to the section that upsets the monophyly of Oniscidea.
• Its zoosection is Crinocheta, which means it belongs to the largest individual lineage of terrestrial isopods, typically unified by the presence of three (or sometimes 4) flagellomeres.
• Its zoosection is Synocheta, which means it belongs to the second largest individual lineage of terrestrial isopods, typically unified by the presence of more than three flagellomeres.
• Its zoosection is Microcheta, which means it belongs to the most limited lineage of terrestrial isopods.

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