The server’s in space when Alberto Gonzales has no jurisdiction.
A week ago, back when men were men and women were men too, I suggested that a sex wiki might be a cool thing to have. A few of you, and you know who you are, emailed me and said "Sam you are a fucking genius." I knew that already. Now SugarHive.org (.com and .net) is here.
You’ll note - it’s devoid of content and that’s where you come in.
I’ve laid out a few sections, paid for the bandwidth and installed the software. Now we have to turn the idea into a resource. It can be whatever you need it to be.
I know some of you have ideas you want to post - that’s great, for anyone who doesn’t, here’s what you can do.
- SugarHive needs ’stubs’. A stub is a short article (it can be a single sentence) which contains some information, but is primarily a placeholder until a more detailed article can be written. Anyone can write a stub - it’s easy. “Fellatio describes oral copulation between a lucky man and his partners”. Actually, that’s a stub that needs fixing.
- Make corrections. SugarHive will be (screw it, is already) full of typos and mistakes. Anal but don’t want to write about anal? Fix other peoples mistakes. We’ll thank you for it.
- Police. Unfortunately some asshole is bound, at somepoint, to try and destroy some of the work we do at SugarHive. Undoing changes with MediaWiki (the wiki software we’re using) is easy. See any vandalism? Roll it back (or tell me about it).
SugarHive.org could become an important, deep and fun guide to the world of human sexuality. Please contribute something so we can make this idea a ‘thing’, it’ll be a cool thing I’m sure.
(NB: If you want to ensure that someone else isn’t working on the same article you are, let people know in the comments for this post. You can of course add to and amend anything on the wiki as it appears.)
Let’s go! (be bold - it’s your wiki)
PS. If there aren’t at least ten stubs and one full article online by tomorrow I’m turning SugarHive into a resource for beekeepers. Seriously.
PPS. Did you know it’s legal to have sex with animals in Sweden? That the most common furry lover is a horse? That you can get a license from the Swedish government to film animal porn? See - if you’d posted it to SugarHive you would. I had to learn that from the Bikini team (who left their horse at home).
I added ten stubs, though I guess a couple could count as short full articles. This is too good - and too fun - an experiment to hand over to beekeepers, dammit.
Ray - you are a gent. You go boy. I will fend off the bee-keepers for now. Actually, there’s been a bit of activity. It’s looking good. You can of course subscribe to the change log using this:
http://www.sugarhive.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
Sam - I’m anal! Woohoo - I can contribute with my mighty red pen of proofreading and English teachery! Yay!
Hey, fun! I added some stubs/short articles of my own. So far I’ve gotta say it looks great, and impressively serious–maybe the trolls just haven’t fount it yet, but it’s starting to read like a real sexuality resource. Or at least the seeds of one.
Chris,
I look forward to seeing your fixes. We also need to suggest/impose some document formatting rules regsarding headers and titles etc. I’m going to take a stab at a formatting page. When it’s up we can use that as a reference (and imporve on it as a group of course).
It’s a huge deal to fix mistakes. The general impression SugarHive creates will depend on it being readable.
Thanks Holly,
I’m sure the trolls will appear but that’s fine, as long as there are enough of us bees to fend them off. Must protect honey…
It’s really exciting. In less than 24 hours there are more than 30 articles in the Hive. That, took me a month to achieve here on my own. As I write this there are hundreds of stubs.
I hope that as the week continues many of the stubs become short articles as people publish items they’re working on right now.
I’ll see if I can stir up some interest in relevant media this week too.
Sam.