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 If you're not a developer (and even if you are), you could do a lot for Nostr by writing nonfiction topic articles for the wiki. 
 Doesn't have to be anything glamorous or even well-known, just information that is well-structured and covers some particular topic.

Your favorite author or city, how to care for Bonzai trees, Puerto Rican cooking, different sorts of knitting loops, etc. 
 @roya ୨୧ You write a lot about your city or Iranian diaspora or your family's ancestral region. This would be a great way to share that with the world. 
 Inspiration through coercion ...

https://wikifreedia.xyz/st.-louis/7d4417d5df435a97b8 
 @PABLOF7z all nostr links need to display correctly. (npub, naddr, etc.) 
 This will probably be automatically fixed when I update the ndk version today
 
 Even better. 
 😂 It's on. 
 Also doesn't matter which language you write in. 
 I'm Illiterate 😂 
 Wiki tools I am aware of are
https://next.nostrudel.ninja/#/wiki
https://wikifreedia.xyz/
https://wikinostr.tijl.xyz/welcome

Feel free to list more of them, if you know of any. ☺️

GM 
 Good morning 
 GM 
 🫂 
 @Luna  , you're a good writer, could you maybe write one on the Black Forest or Stuttgart or the Rhein, someone famous from your region, or something? You could write it in English, German, or do one version of each.

@The Beave  What about an article about metalwork?

@Fr. Josh Miller could you write one on something Catholic? Maybe it's just something you've seen misrepresented elsewhere, that's always annoyed you. 
 GM. I cannot DM u via damus 
 Did you get my DM, just now? 
 Nope 
 Hmm... weird.
Well, then you're going to just have to write it here. 🤷‍♀️  
 A good idea 😊, when I'm back home I'll think about what I could write about 
 @franny  what about an astrology article?
@farfallica could write one on card-reading.
@Michael J would you write one on sourdough bread?

🤔  
 Nice idea 👏🏼 
 I love this idea!!! 😀😀😀 
 Oof... I would NOT know where to start. That's not just an article. If I had the time, I could write many volumes about that...  
 Then do that, then. 😁

Write an overview page, naming the various topics you want to write about, with a short summary. And then add the subpages and link them in, later. 
 Eeeeh... I'd rather write my own book. For now... LOL  
 Then write your own book 😁 What would it be about? A non-fiction book? 
 Slowly. 

It's a fantasy novel. 

 
 Are you already writing it? Wow! I think that's great. I have one I've started in the „drawer“ 🫣 
 Yes. In fact, I am still soliciting readers for the first section of the book. Would you be interested?  
 I would love to read it 🙏🏼 
 I DMed you.  
 Wait you’re writing a book ?? 
 Yes.  
 Awesome. Don’t hesitate to share it here when you’re ready 🚀🚀🚀 
 I will, but that's still a long way off. I'm kinda stalled at the moment. I have to figure out one main part of it before I can write any further and I have too many options... LOL  
 What kind of book? 
 Fantasy.  
 fun. 
 Yup. I'm writing something I would want to read.  
 I'll be interested in reading it. 
 Write about beavers. 😂 
 That's also a book. People underestimate the influence of the beaver on the water sheds of both Europe and North America. 

Most of the water issues the US has currently are due to the massive decline in beaver population (from an estimated 2-400 million to ~9) 
 Yeah, like that. 😂 
 I just dug my own grave, didn't I? 

😅 
 😇 
 😜 
 I was recently reading about someone whose creek had dried up.  They brought beavers back and the creek started flowing again. 
 Yup! I've been learning a LOT about water management lately from the perspective of permaculture, and it's utterly fascinating.  
 Hmm how about an article about root welding with cellulosic electrodes? 
 I could do that... 

I'm wondering if you're an engineer that I might get along with... LOL  
 I work in welding so… and I don’t really like engineering…😅 
 Oh. Well... That is pretty cool. 😁 
 I'll add a write up on my home town over the weekend, God knows I love the local history  
 I started the article for audiospace or audio-space

It got lost a few weeks ago.

We need to solve the permanence problem with wikifreedia 
 What relays were you writing to? 
 Hard to say from a few months back. Certainly stuff like yakihinne, nos.lol, damus.

I'll look into again sometime. Just seemed odd that I could no longer find what I had written. 
 i guess technically its likely not a wikifreedia issue unless something changed with kind numbers or tag requirements. 
 Add theforest.nostr1.com to your wikifreedia relays. 
 If you add it through the wikifreedia client it will publish an event that signals the you want it as part of your wiki relay list 😉 
 (Which means wiki clients should auto connect to that relay when you use them and your followers should connect to that relay for your wiki entries, same idea as outbox model basically) 
 What relays were you writing to? 
 Hard to say from a few months back. Certainly stuff like yakihinne, nos.lol, damus.

I'll look into again sometime. Just seemed odd that I could no longer find what I had written. 
 i guess technically its likely not a wikifreedia issue unless something changed with kind numbers or tag requirements. 
 Add theforest.nostr1.com to your wikifreedia relays. 
 If you add it through the wikifreedia client it will publish an event that signals the you want it as part of your wiki relay list 😉 
 (Which means wiki clients should auto connect to that relay when you use them and your followers should connect to that relay for your wiki entries, same idea as outbox model basically) 
 i guess technically its likely not a wikifreedia issue unless something changed with kind numbers or tag requirements. 
 Add theforest.nostr1.com to your wikifreedia relays. 
 If you add it through the wikifreedia client it will publish an event that signals the you want it as part of your wiki relay list 😉 
 (Which means wiki clients should auto connect to that relay when you use them and your followers should connect to that relay for your wiki entries, same idea as outbox model basically)