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How to Contribute About Archiwik.org is being launched as a contributing project to Galway, Ireland-based visual arts festival, TULCA 2016: ‘The Headless City’, in November 2016. Contributions are invited to the site on the themes of 'The Headless City' – architecture, city planning, death, regeneration and all that. Archiwik.org takes as its starting point the definition of architecture laid out by French writer Georges Bataille. Please read about the our ideas for the project, what it is setting out to achieve, and the parameters for contribution on the About Archiwik page here. The site will continue to be maintained after the completion of TULCA 2016 and will grow into a publicly available, editable resource. Contributing content Articles on Archiwik.org can be created and edited by anyone. The site is built using MediaWiki, the same open-source wiki software that powers Wikipedia. Articles are added using plain text, with basic formatting tools available in the edit window of each article. To upload images, you will need to create a free account. Basic editing and formatting are explained in Wikipedia's cheat sheet, or for a more in-depth overview, see MediaWiki's formatting guide. Get started Create an article by typing its title/subject in the search bar at the top right of every page. You will get a search result page that includes the line "Create the page "Name of your article" on this wiki!" Click on the red highlighted text to start writing. Alternatively, look for red-highlighted words throughout the text of existing articles to create new articles on those subjects. Each article also has a discussion page, where you can add comments or input on any topic you see relevant. Click the Discussion tab on the top left of every page window to get started. Contact the administrators of the site on the administrator talk page here.

Featured Article Holes "Holes" are the negative space of the city. A hole is necessarily dug before a building can be erected, as permanent structures need foundations sunk underground to lend them stability. A hole dug deep enough into the ground in an urban site sometimes reveals evidence of previous habitation, and information about the development of the city that serve to disrupt or undermine contemporary understandings of history. Continue Reading...

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