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Deirdre's Wiki is a test/developmental wiki running on the MediaWiki software engine. This is a private effort to gather research materials, test prototype projects, and develop better wiki methods. If you want to collaborate, you must create an account, confirm the account (click on the link that you receive in the automatically generated e-mail), and send Deirdre an e-mail telling her who you are and, if you haven't worked with Deirdre before, how you came here and what you want to collaborate on.

N.B. This site is not intended to present information from a particular point of view. It is a research library under construction. It contains references that have been gathered to support ongoing projects or those under consideration by the users, not to advocate any position. Material used in this research may be controversial or offensive. Furthermore, the site is being used to develop wiki methods and as an incubator for projects. Incubating projects, such as the pages on photography or Pokémon may be intended to convey information, but are not complete and may be quite stale. Projects such as work on various legal fields are necessarily incomplete and collaborators would be welcome.

Questions regarding this site or work that is on this site may be posted at the community portal or sent to Deirdre via e-mail.

• Photography and digital archiving. This is focused on film photography, developed traditionally, but scanned as negatives and edited digitally. With such methods, a medium format camera costing a few tens to a few hundreds of dollars, combined with a moderately decent flatbed scanner costing less than two hundred dollars, can produce extremely high resolution photographs that a ten thousand dollar digital camera would have difficulty matching for resolution and color. I'm also interested in scanning old film and prints for archiving and ease of reproduction and web display.

• Pokémon. I have children who love Pokémon, in particular, the Pokémon Trading Card Game. We have noticed, however, that the only place that one can easily find the contents of a boxed set is on the back of the box. If you want to order a box from Amazon, you have to guess at what would be good. The official website will provide the contents of a series but it won't tell you precisely which cards come in each box in that series. We are cataloging the cards by boxed set.

• Law. I am a lawyer and I have interests in a wide variety of areas of the law. I hope to assemble some of the material I have used and research I have done. In particular, I am working on an annotated version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, though most of the work so far is in formatting and there is no meaningful content to view.

• German Language and Culture. I am gathering notes and tables of verbs here, hoping to find a better way to present this material than those that currently exist. Again, I have spent some time on experimenting with formatting but have little content yet for anyone to read. If you are disappointed, I'm sorry, but see the purpose of this site.

• Math. I am very interested in multidimensional geometry and number theory, particularly prime number theory and the relationship between zero and infinity. This will primarily be a collection of reference links and some notes.

• Occult. I am intrigued by the philosophical and spiritual aspects of medieval occult and Kabbalah. Much of the content is not easily available on the web, is available only in scans, or is only in Latin. I hope to improve the web-available content.

• Web development and programming. Just a collection of links and sample pages.

• Sailing and Boat building. Eventually, I hope to have a collection of PD boat designs here.

• US Government employment - Information on how to apply for and keep a government job.

• OpenCourseWare - Education must be free.

• Recipes - Mostly from my family.

• Genealogy - mine. But also a proof of concept.

• Dharma - Notes on the Dharma, mostly just references to help me remember many things I tend otherwise not to.

The following projects are ideas, some are more important or closer to fruition than others:

• Hunting & Fishing
• Federal Contracting (United States Federal Government contracting)
• Motorcycles
• Smoking (pipes and cigars)

Significant Sources hosted locally, and sources from the Wikimedia Commons or Wikisource that are actually being used, may listed below. This is not a complete list and many references are used from other sites. Lists of reference links can be found under the topic headings.

N.B. These materials are research references, they do not reflect the views of the owner of this site.