The Catholic Wiki Project

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The Catholic Wiki Project is now up. This brand new project is an
experiment to see if the Roman Catholic community can come together to create a valuable resource on the Roman Catholic faith.

This is your opportunity to help build a collective resource created by Roman Catholics on the Roman Catholic faith.

The larger the community collaboration, the more accurate and complete the resources will be.

Please keep in mind that is a brand new endeavor and that it will experience some growing pains. It is my hope that it will take off and become a thriving online resource on all aspects involving Catholicism.

What do you know about Catholicism? This could be anything from aspects of the faith, the Liturgy, Saints, local Catholic customs or your local parish or diocese.

Please visit the site and make your contributions to this effort:
thecatholicwiki.com

If you agree with the efforts of the Catholic Wiki Project, please invite other Roman Catholics to participate.

Peace,
Caitlin
 
This seems to be good. But I wonder how many mistakes can be put in here with a lot of Catholics just not being so Catholic. :confused: This is something to which we all can add right? I don’t know, I didn’t read much of it… no time right now.

“The Catholic Wiki Project is an experiment to see if
Roman Catholics around the web came come together
to create an accurate, valuable resource on the
Roman Catholic faith.”

There’s a typo in there.
 
I pray this works. :gopray: We have so much out there on the web right now but more can’t hurt. 👍 We need more Catholic websites out there.
 
great idea, but there must be someone who is in charge of editing to avoid any mistakes.

I have my little wiki myself located at my sig. 😃
 
Yes, anybody can edit or add content. The idea will only take off and work if a large number of Catholics contribute to the site, so that there is in a sense, some sort of peer review going on.

As I mentioned, I called the site a “project” because I am looking at it as an experiment to see if it can really take off and become an accurate resource on Catholicism. If not a lot of people contribute and those that contribute post false information then obviously the site will fail in its intent.

Peace,
Caitlin
 
CathWiki said:
Yes, anybody can edit or add content. The idea will only take off and work if a large number of Catholics contribute to the site, so that there is in a sense, some sort of peer review going on.

As I mentioned, I called the site a “project” because I am looking at it as an experiment to see if it can really take off and become an accurate resource on Catholicism. If not a lot of people contribute and those that contribute post false information then obviously the site will fail in its intent.

Peace,
Caitlin
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I don’t know. :confused: It just seems like it will just get… I don’t know. 😦

But I’ll pray anyway. :gopray:
 
Sandt - what’s website that your image links to? It seems to be a DVD explaining the Mass. Am I right in that you can view sections of the DVD online? I have a blog (peopleinthepews.com) that I like to post interesting web sites to.
 
AlegreFe said:
I don’t know. :confused: It just seems like it will just get… I don’t know. 😦

But I’ll pray anyway. :gopray:
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Wikipedia was one of the Internet’s biggest success stories. It contains a plethora of catholic articles itself. It’s well moderated, but it can be “Corrupted”. Regardless it is a fantastic source for information which has for the large part replaced or complimented traditional print and computer Encyclopedias like Britannica, World Book and Microsoft’s Encarta.

Personally I think this is a fantastic idea, I would like a Catholic on line self-editor encyclopedia to contribute to or to garner important information from. It will compliment the print Catholic encyclopedia, just like Wikipedia itself compliments them too.
 
CathWiki said:
Sandt - what’s website that your image links to? It seems to be a DVD explaining the Mass. Am I right in that you can view sections of the DVD online? I have a blog (peopleinthepews.com) that I like to post interesting web sites to.
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There is a thread in this forum about this project on The Catholic Mass Revealed. They have a DVD… well you can go to the thread and read for yourself. 😃 👍

I noticed in your blog that you have a link to a protestant website. :o It’s one of those google ads. It’s that “everystudent” website that is against Catholics. 😦 Do you want that on your weblog?
 
No - I’ve been blocking any anti-Catholic ad as they pop up. I just blocked that one. Thanks for letting me know about it.

Peace,
Caitlin
 
CathWiki said:
No - I’ve been blocking any anti-Catholic ad as they pop up. I just blocked that one. Thanks for letting me know about it.

Peace,
Caitlin
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😦 That Protestant google ad is still on your weblog. It’s like the never-dying nagging Protestant anti-Catholic brainwashing cancer that just won’t go away and wants to eat at our brain cells and kill every Catholic cell in our brain. :whacky: :confused:

Do you need donations to run that site so you won’t have to have those ads?
 
It takes an hour of two for the block to kick in. I just run the Google ads to pay for the cost of the hosting which it covers. It’s been pretty effective to block the ads - luckily not too many of them pop up.

Thanks for the thread link to the “Catholic Mass Revealed” - it looks very interesting. I will have to check out the site in more detail. This looks like very good material to order for our RCIA and Confirmation programs.
 
That’s interesting there are several other Catholic-wiki’s out there as well (Googling for them brought up several such as www.catholic-wiki.com ) Perhaps there is a way for everyone who wants to do a Catholic Wiki to collaborate on the project instead of having several small wiki’s floating around not accomplishing much.
 
Yes, I did a Google search on Catholic wikis before I started this one. Most of the ones that came up were either defunct or low functioning. The www.catholic-wiki.com redirects to CatecheticsOnline.com (which, based on your profile, is your web site) and their focus seems to be to model the Catechism of the United States (from looking at the notation on the community portal). Most of the other wikis that are online and functioning are very subject specific.

My goal is to create an open, all embracing wiki that covers all topics involving Catholicism. I would like to create a resource outside of Wikepedia that is specifically Roman Catholic. Like I said, it’s an experiment so I’ve giving this project a year to see if it can take flight.
 
Have you figured out a way for an Imprimatur and Nihil Obsat ?
 
Not yet. If the wiki becomes active enough and it gets enough legitimate contributors then it would be a great idea to see if we can obtain some kind of Vatican approval on the wiki.
 
Please don’t get me wrong, I think you have a great idea - its not the first time its been tried either. I’ve seen about 5 Catholic Wiki’s come and go because the owners each wanted their own and did not want to work together with others who wanted a Catholic Wiki. I’ve always been willing to defer to another if they can make it work, or simply give control of the one we set up a while ago to someone else. I know that another webmaster (of phatmass.com) just decided he is going to start one too. If you can get yours to work and get enough good editors and contributors we will use ours just for cataloging catechetical material and defer to yours. Right now though, it is a ‘all around everything Catholic wiki’.

Solidarity really is a legitimate Catholic concept, even on the Internet 🙂
 
Yes, I think we are on the same page in that we need to collaborate where possible. My hope is that as many of the wikis and Catholic resource sites can succeed. To me, the more valuable Catholic-centric resources there are out there, the better. I look at it in the same vein as to why gas stations and fast food restaurants all site themselves near one another even though they are offering the same service. It’s the proven concept that the more resources aggregate, the more overall visitors you will attract. I am open for any suggestions you have on offering crosslinks, promos of each other’s sites, etc. My field is Geographic Information Systems and I have built a very successful GIS resource site (gislounge.com) on this same concept and I have prominent pointers to all of my competitors because I believe that offering the best resource is the most important things, not whether or not that resource is my site.
 
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