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The Bibliotheca Anonoma is a research task force archiving, documenting, and safeguarding *Internet Folklife*.

Focus topics include Something Awful, 2channel, 4chan, and other imageboard/textboard communities.

About this Wiki

This wiki is a Semantic Wiki that ties together all the knowledge of this organization into a Semantic web. It differs from other wikis in the use of forms and tables to produce a metadata database that guides users (and robots) to the information they seek.

Showcase

Treasures of Internet Folklife, archived and showcased for the general public.

• Stories - The folk stories of the internet, some stretching into long, sprawling epics.
• Art - The Internet allows even the most obscure artist to reach dedicated fans anywhere, and utilize their skills in unique ways.
• History - Internet History from our perspective.
• Books - Freely editable books and guides with lots of useful information.
• Collections - Assorted data archives.
• Website Archives - Archived Websites under our care.

Contact Us

The best way to contact the Bibliotheca Anonoma is at our Discord chat or IRC channel.

• IRC channel - irc.rizon.net #bibanon - The IRC channel is the primary control room for the Bibliotheca Anonoma, and meets daily. Feel free to drop in, contribute anything, or even join anytime.
• Discord - Alternatively, if you can’t get the hang of IRC, jump in our Discord, a modern chat client. All messages here are synced with IRC using a Discord/IRC bridge.
• BAnonoma Twitter - We usually post quick announcements here.

Contribute

• Just edit this wiki anytime, anywhere. Follow the Wiki Design Principles.
• If you just need to drop off new stories/content, jump in our IRC or Discord chat, we can help research and put it together as a wikipage.
• The Bibliotheca Anonoma uses a Kanban Board system, to coordinate our projects. It’s publicly viewable (and commentable), so monitor our progress there.
• The Workroom contains a large stack of stories we’re still reviewing. You can comment on it, track our progress, even help out.
• The Storehouse contains files deemed critical for archival, but still under review. We tossed them into Google Drive for now.
• The Internet Archive holds most of our critically important treasures, from entire website backups to a Git backup of this wiki.
• Stay on the lookout for pages that may have fallen by the wayside, are in need of maintenance, or are orphaned. Place pages [

Uploading Images

Images that are an integral part of an article are allowed to be . This includes photos, tables, diagrams, figures, and charts. Since this utilizes Amazon S3 for file hosting, we advise that you use this option sparingly.

Images that are screencaps or of other importance in their own right should be posted to booru.eikonos.org instead. It has more space and fewer bandwidth restrictions.

There is a unique exception to allow images from imgur.com to be embedded. However, whenever possible, either Eikonos or this wiki's own image hosting instead.

Sections

The Bibliotheca Anonoma

Articles about the Bibliotheca Anonoma itself.

• Early History of the Bibliotheca Anonoma - The Bibliotheca Anonoma has had a long and storied history since it’s first git commit date in January 18th, 2012.
• Modern History of the Bibliotheca Anonoma - Once the BA set up an IRC and Discord channel, we began to gather more members and accomplish more things.

Workroom

Archived data yet to be analyzed and packaged.

• Trello Boards - The latest data we’ve obtained is held in these kanban boards for transparency.
• Content to Import - Trello board

Infrastructure

Services that make the Bibliotheca Anonoma possible.

• Group Chat - Group communication systems utilized by the Bibliotheca Anonoma.
• Wiki - The structure of this very wiki, which is the core of our organization.
• Kanban Board - The Kanban Board system helps team members make sense of tasks and goals.
• Eikonos (Image Tag Database) - An image tag system based on Moebooru/Danbooru to organize and help make 4chan/imageboard screencaps easier to search through.
• Internet Archival - Tools we use to archive online data.
• Archival Mediums - Hardware or services used to store archived data, such as the Internet Archive, or our own LTO-4 tapes.
• Proposals - Ideas for building new types of infrastructure.

Tutorials

Tips and tricks on how to archive the way we do.

• Link Scouting - The first step is to search for interesting content around the internet.
• Upload to the Internet Archive - The next step is to upload to the Internet Archive.

Software Development

Programs developed by the Bibliotheca Anonoma.

• Code - Programs developed by the Bibliotheca Anonoma to assist our archival work.

BASLQC

The Bibliotheca Anonoma Software Liquidation Commission is a task force for the archival of older software and the methods of maintaining older hardware. Click the link above to view that section of the wiki.

EternalArchive

The EternalArchive Project is an organization set on archiving and digitizing cultural works from various language groups.

Team members meet at #eternalarchive on irc.rizon.net .

The organization has various roles:

• EternalArchive/Solutions - Think Tank for figuring out how to archive a tremendous wealth of data safely and cheaply.
• EternalArchive/Discovery - Figuring out what content to archive and whether it is worth saving.
• EternalArchive/Acquisition - Acquisition of the cultural works from various sources, through totally legal means :^).
• EternalArchive/Archival - Infra