Collaboration (or How Can I Help?)

I want to get some smarties in here, thinking through how best to accomplish that...

Thoughts:

0. at the least this will reflect the notetaker's knowledge, perhaps that is enough...
1. invite some friends to build the library: (are you a library minded person? please reach out)
   1. restricted access to those in the know / capable, and have the talent to do the proper work justice.
   2. restricted access to those who respect the ancient sources & ammon (no seminarians... no bad actors).
   3. if you're unaligned, you'll be BOOTED. no hard feelings (yeah we can talk about it if there's some mistake, we're all human...)
2. For LadyBabylon
   1. it's all about Dr Hillman's livestreams / lectures, unadulterated representation of his lectures w/ supporting information to fill in the gaps he leaves (he'll often allude to something with a single word - or refer to past episodes. We can help connect the dots for people).
   2. For topics outside Ammon's, keep it relevant, and put those in a clearly marked as outside of Ammon's lectures.
3. For HypatiaGnostikoi, sticking to the theme here: painting a historical big picture and what's behind the world's religions, holidays, naming of the days of the week, etc..., generally.

Finally:

• Needless to say, i'll be looking to give out logins but they'll be very limited and very much vetted (proven scholarship in the relevant communities)... and we'll need to communicate about what belongs where.

• without a login, you can always write up notes or a transcript for a video, or write an article, and submit it

Dragons

If you're given a login, you'll be one of the dragons (temple guardians) here, "guarding the information".

Academic Integrity

• We strive to be accurate to the source texts that we cite. Taking accurate notes on the speakers we document. Providing accurate supplemental information when it tells a better more deeper story.
• We strive to cite the reference, and not just give the text without a citation (what work it's from, a link if possible)
• We strive to also write articles that make sense of the findings from the lectures, livestreams, and source texts. If you don't see citations and texts, these articles are general impressions, but they're founded on the best of our knowledge to be in the realm of relevancy.
• In many cases we prefer technical writing rigor based in the real, than wild metaphor, flowery language. We prefer Reality to Fairy Tale, and technical precision to vagueness. That said, there's instances where you learn to have ears to hear, and this can be metaphorical - sure - but we try to define that vox with ever increasing rigor in the Orphic Vox Glossary.
• We will be transparent when we don't know, or when an article is still developing.

Mechanics

Q: Why isn't my edits showing up on the site?

A: We have a review process where edits dont go live immediately. This is to protect the library from bad actors. But we'll periodically push your changes, dont worry. Feel free to reach out to give a nudge and we'll make it happen faster.

Why Markdown, What is Markdown?

We use markdown:

1. to keep formatting consistant across everything
2. remove formatting decisions from us (focus on the work) - which removes a lot off our plate, but we still lay things out, we have to.
3. keeps the STORAGE format human readable in case we ever lose the server or something (html would be too, but ... yeah. whatever. simpler storage format for the win).

Learning: if you have edit access, then hit the (?) at the top of the editor. [markdown test] also describes most of the markdown that is supported on this wiki site.

Changes

Review the ChangeLog here.