Random HP Website Idea

[Liz Muir]

Hi everyone.  I'm new to the OTC, a lurker on the main list and 
active on the regional list for the mountainwest.  But enough about 
that...

Alright, so I've had this idea for an HP website stewing in my head 
for weeks, but haven't been able to decide on what to do with it.  
I'm not sure whether it's been done before, if there's even a need 
for it outside my own head, if it's feasible or what.  So I'm looking 
for some feedback on this, and perhaps some collaborators if I ever 
decide to actually do it.  So, here goes:

The idea is sort of a Lexicon combined with HPFGU combined with _The 
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ (by Douglas Adams).  Generally, I'd 
like to write a website that works like the Lexicon only instead of 
information about cannon, it would be an encyclopedia/history/guide 
to the fandom.  I'd like to include the history/biographies 
of "famous" fans and a good long index of wild theories.  Also in 
there would be reviews of websites (with the history of how they came 
about and what they've done for the fandom), guides for new fans on 
how to get started in the fandom, and histories/synopses of fanfics 
that have changed the fanscape.  It would be written in a nice 
_Hitchhiker's_ style that wouldn't confuse newbie fans trying to 
figure things out, but would also be enjoyable to old-bies.  Sound 
ambitious? (No, I'm not a Slytherin.)

As I said, this idea has been slowly evolving in my brain for a 
while.  Love of history was definitely a factor, but my main 
inspiration was the history of HPFGU linked to on the portkey.  I 
found it really interesting, but I was left wanting more.  I wanted 
to know how everything had actually started and be able to follow up 
on all the inside jokes.  Noticing fandom-analysis sections at Nimbus 
2003 let me know there was at least some kind of need for it.

Recently I've been thinking about it more because of two things: 1) I 
have a lot of non-internet-savvy HP friends.  They are always really 
confused by fandom stuff and I never know how to explain it. 2) I've 
just recently discovered the wonder that is Wiki websites.  If you 
don't know, as I didn't, Wiki is a form of website where anyone can 
edit pages and add info.  Backups are automatically made so that you 
can reverse major damage, but there seems to be little of that 
anyway.  I thought making this site a Wiki would add to the 
_Hitchhiker's_ feel.

So tell me: am I hot or not?  Am I even warm?  What do you think of 
the idea?  Possible, probable, or impassible?  Interesting, amusing, 
or boring as Binns?  Wiki or no?  Other comments from experienced 
website gods?

Rowen (Liz)