Explanations for Aspies Wiki

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How about a wiki?

Just like wikipedia but made for aspies, by aspies.

What would be the point? -- To explain (perhaps especially to AS children) how the world works in simple terms especially designed for the aspie in mind, because it is aspies explaining it.

It could also be simple practical general advice on how to improve yourself in life skills:

TITLE: "What to do when you first meet someone that you know"

CONTENT:
1) Say hi
2) Ask them how they are. Remember to look at their face when you say it
3) Continue to look at them while they respond. If they are not feeling well, say "I am sorry to hear that".
4) They may ask you how you are - keep your reply short, e.g. "I'm feeling pretty good."
5) try to link it with another topic to keep the conversation going. e.g. "I'm feeling pretty good, and look at the beautiful weather we've got today! Nice, huh?"


or that sort of thing anyway. perhaps the wiki should be titled 'A ROUGH GUIDE TO LIFE'. Basically a large collection of 'HOWTO' documents. make it searchable.


It would need to be moderated to some degree.


There are plenty of wiki PHP/database systems out there so it wouldn't need to be technically difficult.

If not for WrongPlanet, I'll do it myself! (money allowing....)

I think this is basically accomplished in the Article section on here.

As much as I love the concept of the Wiki-- I regard Wikipedia as a pinnacle of intellectual achievement-- I don't think that's the right structure for the job.

The primary difference is that a wiki is more 'dynamic' in that you can add, change more easily and quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

It is more to do with collaboration!

we had a wiki but it kept getting spammed and noone ever reverted the spam. they just sent me an email saying that it was hacked.

... which is the other objection to a Wiki. Mind you, I love Wiki. I used to use one (installed on an unlisted server) to keep information about sci-fi novel I'm working on. (I ended up changing the whole format of the world, requiring me to dump the whole thing, but that's not the fault of the software.)

There is so much disagreement about AS, Autism, Psychology, et cetera, that you would run into Wikifights, since it's something that we're all pretty passionate about. For example, someone would post something about thimerosal as being a possible cause of AS, and someone like me would feel obligated to annotate that multiple studies have ruled it out. Then the original poster, passionate in his opinion, would delete my comments and replace it with a phrasing that indicated you'd have to be a total moron to believe those studies. I'd replace it with the basis of the studies, which would be deleted.

See what I mean? Wikipedia has the advantage of a much larger spectrum of articles, so this sort of squabbling is limited to a minority of the articles. But you'll notice that a large number of articles are locked to prevent bickering.

i should note that I still run tvWiki.tv

The articles are hard to navigate, the index groups articles by month and not by subject and the search feature does not return any results for the most part. No results were returned for smiling or food. 'Friends' said 'no results' but listed two web links after clicking on the 'web links' link.
(I'd be happy to take on the job of sorting it all out into user-friendly categories for ease of access and am more than competant in handling the back end of a site designed with the mambo/joomla CMS.)
Perhaps adding a 'tag' system to the articles so everything tagged the same would be easily found together? The things I thought were simple and that might be covered in the articles aren't.