For some time now I've not been able to keep up with it all the content I want to add top the wiki , and at the same time I'd like to expand its scope help more people. I'm the only person working on it and unfortunately I've reached my limit. There's also the risk that I'll stop one day and there will be no one in place to continue.
There's been a noticeable increase in the number of FTM people using the sub, and I think its time to add more support for them. I'd like to add FTM surgeries to the wiki in the same way that MTF currently is. It's a lot of work and I simply cannot do it. If one or more people would like to tackle it then I'd like to discuss how it might be done.
I'm also unable to keep up with surgery video's on YouTube. Its too time consuming and I'm sure I'm missing many.
If anyone has any special interests that might help others I could setup new pages for them. There are a few people who maintain such content already, however it would be an advantage to have it centralized - the wiki is the start of something that could be so much more in a years to come.
An example might be the "Am I trans posts". It's an important topic and there's been so many posts on other subs and some great responses.
Another is the question of research supporting gender identity. A page on that would very helpful.
My main philosophy in the building the wiki is to help people find what they need elsewhere. In some cases its helpful to give an overview, and I have occasionally written on certain subjects , but I try to avoid it.
If anyone would like to contribute in any way, even if its small, I'd like to talk about it. You could be helping a lot of people.
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To explain in more detail.
- This is not about moderating this sub. That's not a problem at the moment, and the wiki is actually on two other subs setup where no one can post.
- This is about collecting information from all anywhere public on internet and adding links in the wiki so people can find it. There's so much being posted these days, and I've so little time, that I'm not able to keep up anymore.
- Its not really about structuring the wiki either. The main problem is just collecting information, organizing it is relatively easy.
My workflow at the moment is to edit the wiki on my computer and then just copy the complete pages over to reddit. This makes it easy to do, but hard to work with others. Unless I'm getting a huge amount of help from others I don't want to change as it will slow me down. This would not be a problem if someone wanted to work on a topic that I'm not, FTM wiki pages for example.
I try not to write my opinion on things as I find its almost impossible to write something authoritative and correct, and its also too much time to write and keep up to date. The wiki's I've seen on other subs don't get updated properly when this happens because people are very reluctant to modify others work. Lists of links don't suffer that problem. The cases where I have written my own content are exceptions that perhaps I shouldn't do, but I was particularly interested in something and it was a handy place to put it.
In case anyone wants to be a mod here, there's no real need because the only parts that mods do with any regularity is reviewing reports, banning trolls, and making sure people follow the rules (there's not much of that). The other mod tasks are quite infrequent. Anyone can help people out with advice.
And since we're on the subject of this sub, its growing quite rapidly and I expect it will continue to do so. This sub has already helped a lot of people and by contributing you'd be helping even more in the future.
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