This is Victoria City Style Council's first ever wiki. I used to blog here, but when I read about WetPaint, I decided to start a wiki about Victoria, BC. I know next to nothing about wikis, but I know a lot about Victoria, and I invite anyone else who knows a thing or two to contribute to these pages. I have set things up so that contributors who join WetPaint can automatically fool around (join the conversation) on Victoria City Style Council. (The options were anyone, including anonymouses, or WetPaint-registered folks, or invitees only. I might change this to "anyone at all," but being a wiki-newbie, I thought I'd want some overview of changes...)

I'm very interested in the developing urban character of Victoria -- something not often touted by the tourism industry, which prefers to emphasise the city's alleged "European" character. (It used to be its "English" character, but lately -- perhaps under pressure from the forces of inclusion -- the definition has expanded to include other old places... It's not real inclusion, of course.) I'm also very serious about style -- please take a look at the page called Style v. Substance -- and I'm happy that I now have an additional, reason to disdain Rousseau. Those of us who care about Victoria -- on all sides of the various fence poles -- spend time going to City Council meetings. That's why this wiki's title refers to a city council. But note that it also refers to The Style Council in appreciation of their emphasis that style is substance.

There's no specific direction to this project yet -- whether it continues, thrives, or languishes is quite up in the air. But it's here, and open to contributions. I'd like to hope that with the thriving coffee-house culture we enjoy in the city, along with the thriving possibilities for conversation and the exchanges of ideas we see on the internet, this wiki could become a gathering place for yet another venue of exchange. New users/ visitors: please see1 - 2 - 3: steps for tips on how-to use this site.

Just remember, you can't let your bums fall off... ("Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off." - Zaphod admonishing the Milliways waiter in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ) Let style keep you from going to pieces.