User talk:Ide Cyan

Hey Ide Cyan -- Would you care to write a paragraph or two about Materialist feminism ? I think it would be helpful, as we build out various analyses of works and trends within sf, to be able to refer to significant theories & approaches. --LQ 10:14, 6 February 2007 (PST)

I mean to. I'm rereading Christine Delphy in the original French (after finding her in English translation first) these days. She literally wrote the book on that topic. --Ide Cyan 12:34, 6 February 2007 (PST)

Excellent. It will be great to have more on feminist theory in the wiki. I love this wiki! I think it will be a great resource. --LQ 13:52, 6 February 2007 (PST)

cat cap

the cat cap is an issue - i get it wrong too. we should develop some sort of style guide, or adopt wikipedia's. i don't love wikipedia's style guide on this issue, but maybe it's a standard people will be familiar with. whatever we do, we should do something consistent! --LQ 10:16, 6 February 2007 (PST)

There's also the issue of title formatting: whether to use italics of "quote marks" around a TV show's name, etc. A style guide (or a rough sketch of one) would be good. It would be handy if there was a page referencing all tags, or most common tags, but the endless Year of Birth / Death / Publication categories, because they begin with numbers, are all at the top of the search results if you try to pull the full list of categories. --Ide Cyan 12:34, 6 February 2007 (PST)

...Well, there's this page I've just noticed. *thud* --Ide Cyan 12:37, 6 February 2007 (PST)

Yah ... o god so much work. And so much of it that is not that fun to me. I have opinions (always) but never the inclination to actually start the thing, just to nitpick about it after someone else does it. Are you a grammarian / punctuationist? If neither of us are we should try to recruit other people who are. I haven't been doing so well in recruiting. I'm going to do it at WisCon and also in Boston over the next few months -- host wiki workshops & teas in my home, that sort of thing. liz often has great ideas on this kind of thing too. maybe i should just post on the blog & ask for other suggestions.

aside from recruiting & getting other people onto this, there's a bunch of useful things under the "Special pages" (on the left) and in Category:About and all the stuff starting with FSFwiki:x -- I'm still learning all the features of mediawiki software. Luckily my current job will end in a couple of weeks & then I'm taking some time off & planning to do a lot of fsf stuff. --LQ 13:52, 6 February 2007 (PST)

louky bersianik

i'd love to see your thoughts on louky bersianik's euguelionne -- it's been years since i read it but it made a huge impact. you could read it in french & english! also you & liz henry & i should talk sometime about non-english-language stuff: should we do it in namespace or a separate subdomain the way wikipedia does it? or just in titles of things -- e.g., "Buffy (en)", "Buffy (sp)", "Buffy (fr)" ... --LQ 13:39, 7 February 2007 (PST)