Esolang:Community Portal
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[edit] Editing the Esolang Wiki
You are welcome to edit this wiki. If you do, then please:
- Don't include copyrighted material (see Esolang:Copyrights). This includes copying content (such as code and scripts) from the Wikipedia!
- Fill in a meaningful summary when you edit wiki pages.
It is preferable that you create a user if you edit the wiki, but you can edit anonymously if you wish.
Contrary to the Wikipedia you are welcome to write an article about an esoteric programming language you've made yourself, even if you are the only one in the world that knows about it.
Read some further guidelines about editing the wiki. A summary of items specific to Esolang may be found on our policy page.
[edit] Means of communication
The esoteric programming community has several means of communication in addition to this wiki. Here are the most important ones:
[edit] IRC
The #esoteric IRC channel on freenode.net is currently the most active esoteric programming forum.
Logs of the IRC channel can be found at ircbrowse (formatted) or tunes.org (unformatted, and frequently faster).
There's also another esolang related IRC channel, ##brainfuck, which is entirely dedicated to brainfuck programming. It's on freenode.net as well.
[edit] Mailing lists
The mailing list lang@esoteric.sange.fi is is a common place to announce new languages, programming contests etc., though it is rather low on traffic these days.
To subscribe to lang@esoteric.sange.fi, send a mail with subscribe lang as the message body to listar@esoteric.sange.fi.
An archive of previous messages can be found here.
There is also a dedicated Brainfuck mailing list, friends-of-brainfuck@koeln.ccc.de.
You can subscribe or browse the archive of previous messages here.
[edit] Usenet
The alt.lang.intercal newsgroup (online archive) is used for discussing both INTERCAL and other esoteric languages.
[edit] Forum
An experimental web message board has been created, in recognition of the following facts:
- Much of the discussion that has gone on talk pages on this wiki was related to esolangs themselves, not to the articles.
- The wiki's talk pages are a clumsy medium for in-depth discussion.
- For whatever reason, nobody seems to want to use the mailing list anymore.
It remains to be seen whether this experiment will prove successful.
[edit] Archive
There is an esoteric file archive of implementations, programs, web sites and other related files.
[edit] Map
The general location of several esolang enthusiasts can be found on the esolang map.
