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In this short story ([1]), JorgeLuísBorges writes about a conspiracy by a group of intellectuals to write an encyclopedia like Britannica about the imaginary planet Tlon. JorgeLuísBorges usually writes about imaginary books, and I think this could be called MetaFiction?.

Borges also suggests the introduction of fictional articles into real encyclopedias and he claims to have found an article about the fictional region of Uqbar in a strange edition of the EncyclopediaBritannica?.

A TlonEncyclopedia? could be created by a group of interested authors using a wiki. It would be a kind of HyperTextFiction with a web like structure: WebFiction?. Idealist would release TlonEncyclopedia? under a FreeLicense? to allow for maximum dispersion.

This short story also suggests that a group of conspirators could introduce fictional articles into projects like WikiPedia (please, don't do this) to allow the parasitic dispersion of a work of art. This could be part of a PhonyFlood.

(Widespread dispersion of fictional articles by a group of conspirators? See the section about JeanineSalla? in the RealityGame topic.)

Interesting... This leaves me wanting to create such a wiki. But, I'm also interested in creating a LOTR wiki to document my knowledge of the Tolkien world as I read through the book. Which makes me think of Tolkien's own cataloging of his world as preparation for creating it. And the detailed fantasy world that C.S. Lewis and his brother meticulously constructed as children. All this really intrigues me (I think I'll create my own language and world in some future life), but I can't quite pin down why. Perhaps there's something strangely satisfying about having sovereignty (in the theological sense, including omniscience and omnipotence) over an entire reality. This all just so darn cool. -- anon.

Just in case you haven't stumbled across these yet - [TolkienWiki] [Lotr Gaming wiki] - MarkDilley

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