What’s new in jaWiki

[](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki)Last week, I [opened up jaWiki](http://johnaugust.com/archives/2006/introducing-jawiki), which to my relief and surprise hasn’t ass-ploded into a jagged minefield of broken links and PHP fragments.

The total number of articles has grown from 91 at launch to 121, largely driven by reader contributions.

Notable new entries include:

* [[[non-diegetic]]](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki/non-diegetic)
* [[[macguffin]]](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki/macguffin)
* [[[red herring]]](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki/red_herring)
* [[[hubris]]](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki/hubris)
* [[[advances and shortcomings of knowledge]]](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki/advances_and_shortcomings_of_knowledge)

That last one is a surprise; I like surprises. I’m happy to see articles that provide information on aspects of screenwriter-dom that I know little about. To that extent, I’ve created [[[stub]]](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki/stub) entries that I hope readers can expand upon.

* [[[robert mckee]]](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki/robert_mckee)
* [[[syd field]]](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki/syd_field)
* [[[writers boot camp]]](http://johnaugust.com/jawiki/writers_boot_camp)

There are also a lot of articles in the archive which could use some dusting-off and wikify-ing. Some possibilities include:

* [Specs, treatments and pitches](http://johnaugust.com/archives/2003/specs-treatments-and-pitches)
* [Formatting montage sequences](http://johnaugust.com/archives/2004/formatting-a-montage-sequence)
* [Opening titles](http://johnaugust.com/archives/2005/opening-titles)

Again, jaWiki is an experiment. My hope is that it evolves into something useful and compelling. Time is the best test of theory.