Metaweb:So long, and thanks for all the fish

From the Quicksilver Metaweb.

A few years ago, Applied Minds created this site with Neal Stephenson to make a collaboratively edited collection of annotations, initially for Neal's book Quicksilver, and later, for other works as well. We called this site "The Quicksilver Metaweb."

More recently, I and my co-workers at Applied Minds have begun a project called "The Metaweb" which bears little resemblance to this site. Applied Minds will soon remove the link from metaweb.com's front page to here. If you wish to reach this site, you will need to use the URL www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page.

It's a fair guess that Applied Minds may take this site down in the future. The content here is licensed under the GNU FDL, so you are welcome to save it, archive it, and make it available to others using the same license. You may wish to use this discussion page to share techniques for copying this site (me, I like wget).

I want to thank all of the contributors who have helped to make this site. Neal Stephenson, for contributing his time and annotations, Neal's publisher, for supporting our efforts, Darin Wilson for setting up MediaWiki, Tomi Pierce, who made sure this project happened, Ken Skistimas, who improved the MediaWiki site layout, Blair Zajac, for doing much of the site administration in the early days, Jeremy Bornstein, for his thoughts and annotations, and Robert Cook and Danny Hillis, for their encouragement.

Finally, I would like to thank all of the current active users who have created entries, built links, and stepped up to do the day to day maintenance that comes with a user-editable site. This site could not have happened without your efforts.

--Pat