Finnegans Web & Wiki

Sorry y’all, I dropped the ball.  When I upgraded the MediaWiki software back in November, I forgot that one critical little setting that prevents asshole spammers from creating new accounts.  They found it, and created over 55,000 new accounts since then, and over 60,000 edits.  I’m in the process of cleaning it up now, which fortunately is mostly automated, and they won’t be able to create new accounts.

If you’re a legitimate user since then, and/or you created legitimate edits since then, well, I’m sorry to tell you, you and/or those edits are gone.  No way I could read through everything to determine legit vs non-legit, there was just too much of it.  Now we’re back ot the old policy.  Manual user creation only.  Contact me and tell me why you want an account on the Wiki, and we’ll go from there.  Can’t have nice things anymore without weight loss and casino spammers trying to ruin it.  At least it wasn’t mostly big dick pills this time.

From Gavan Kennedy:

Wakers: Finnegan returns to Wake again at BM 2018 to film chapters 4 and 5. This year, our studio is hosted at Entheos Camp on Esplanade @ 3:45. Would love to have you back for another page. Bring your camp-mates! Further info here: http://finneganwakes.com/

http://finneganwakes.com/

I ran into a fellow Wake-worker last night, one who’s involved in a rather important project, and I can’t say much, other than this — if you happen to be at Burning Man this year (as in later this month!) you might want to visit IAMU at Home Rule Village at 4:15 and C. We’re easy to spot, just look for the big scaffolding tower. That is all.

I am so excited about the release of this project — 31 hours of Finnegans Wake being read aloud with MUSIC!

The Waywords and Meansigns project has been released under a Creative Commons license on archive.org. The project is available in multiple formats, which means you’re not tied to listening online — you can do as I plan to do, download the entire thing and listen on your portable device. For me, I’ll be listening during my commute, which is at least 1.5 hours each way, each day.

Every new interpretation of the Wake leads to potential new eyes and ears, as well as deeper understanding of the Wake.

Please give this project a listen.

http://www.waywordsandmeansigns.com/

http://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/jam-bands-experimental-music-and-james-joyce-finnegans-wake-set-music-unabridged

Fascinating. And free. May 4.

You know, I just realized that come next Monday, February 9, this site and its corresponding wiki will have been up and running TEN YEARS. TEN YEARS. Let me say that again. TEN YEARS.

Ten years of a FREE participatory resource on Finnegans Wake. Scholars have come and scholars have gone. Some are still around.

I’d like to celebrate that anniversary. If anyone’s in the DC area, let’s go have a pint.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/james-joyce-s-historic-sojourn-in-nice-recalled-1.1464477

I’m here in Key West, FL, just a few blocks from Finnegans Wake, the Key West Irish pub. I hope to have a photo for you all by the time I make it home. If anyone would like to sponsor a pint for me, you may donate via Paypal at the email address [email protected].

I’d love to have one of these!

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/joyce-family-split-over-error-on-new-coin-1.1359819

I continue to be amazed at the amount of work being poured into this site by a relatively small group of rather dedicated (some might say cultish) users. Some are here for purposes involving educational coursework, while others, like myself, take a more recreational approach to the wake.

In the five plus years of the site’s existence, the amount and quality of information and presentation has increased exponentionally.

A user wrote in today to tell me of artist Stephen Crowe’s “Wake In Progress“, a growing collection of illustrations to Finnegans Wake. Funny how the Wake continues to spin off new projects so long after its publication.

There’s so much more I’d like to know about the users of this site. Where in the world are you? I wonder if I cross paths with any of you in any of my other lives here in Virginia.