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30 August 2007

Wiki pages on pages Shouldn't Metachat have one of it's own by now? Or are we simply not influential enough? dammit I wanna be part of the cool kids gang, we're cool aren't we? aren't we? MoooOOooM!

post by: dabitch at: 12:50 | 19 comments

Hmm, I didn't know Wikipedia was the gatekeeper of cool. Are you sure about that? I think Metachat is plenty cool as it is.

posted by King of Prontopia 30 August | 12:56

I don't think we're influential enough, but I prefer it this way... I like it better as a secret treehouse.

posted by taz 30 August | 13:01

It looks like MetaChat is listed under the section titled "Sites Inspired by Metafilter."

posted by fallenposters 30 August | 13:04

MetaChat: Win iFriends and Influence ePeople

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 30 August | 13:04

Naah, didn't think it automagically made you cool, but I was impressed to find quite a few sites we all frequent have their own Wiki entries.

here I figured wiki was more yaknow, dictionary. But it's better. It's like peanut butter and chocolate! Yeay! Don't aske me why it took me so long to figure that out, heck I've been known to edit pages where I might have a crumb of knowledge or two.

posted by dabitch 30 August | 13:04

ps - we must start using that tagline.

posted by dabitch 30 August | 13:05

(yes, I have a bad habit of starting really chatty posts.)

posted by dabitch 30 August | 13:05

hee. Look at the talk page for MeFi, the Monkeyfilter section. A hockey game broke out in the middle of an editing match!

posted by taz 30 August | 13:12

ps - we must start using that tagline.

Me, I prefer Taz's secret treehouse.

Not incidentally, may I write a children's book entitled Taz's Secret Treehouse? Puh-leease?

posted by Elsa 30 August | 13:14

Only if I get to illustrate it.

posted by Specklet 30 August | 13:25

I'd love it. I always wanted to be a character in children's book.

posted by taz 30 August | 13:27

Dude, we have our OWN wiki. Let the masses come to US, yo.

posted by SassHat 30 August | 14:32

Yeah!

And yeay, we all get to be character's in the childrens book Taz's Secret Treehouse. I wanna be the spider hanging by the half-rotten apple conversing with the wee worm in it, commenting on events in the treehouse - a bit like those guys on the balcony in the muppets. The worm is a mescal-worm who can tell weird stories from his past before he fled the tequila farm and sounds half-stoned every so often. He may be a hallucination.

posted by dabitch 30 August | 15:02

I love it. Like Charlotte's Web meets Alice in Wonderland meets The Teachings of Don Juan. In a treehouse!

posted by taz 30 August | 15:25

Wow, I think maybe we should all get together and write/illustrate this book!

posted by Specklet 30 August | 15:33

I draw a mean stick figure, so count me in!

posted by King of Prontopia 30 August | 15:37

There's no way we're popular enough for a wikipedia article. Alexa rank below 100,000 (Although that's probably skewed by the high percentage of firefox using visitors we get), about 1/20th the page views & 1/100th of the google hits metafilter gets.

Also - That secret garden thing. Sounds good to me.

posted by seanyboy 30 August | 16:45

*falls back into thread, dusts herself off after failing to get the sv.wiki thing*

Yeah yeah, lets do a stick-figure secret garden with stone worms thing! And have Wendel read it as a spoken book for the wee ones!

posted by dabitch 30 August | 17:02

Wendell even. Yeah!

posted by dabitch 30 August | 17:02

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