Welcome

Welcome to the Reardan History wiki. This is a place to collect and share stories and photos about Reardan, a small farming town in eastern Washington state. The main collection of historical photographs is from holdings at the Reardan Memorial Library, the Lincoln County Historical Society, and a collection of photographs of Dan Plaster, a local photographer, and other photographs found on the Internet.

Contributing

For now, this is an open wiki which means anyone can contribute text and pictures without logging in. You can easily correct simple typos and misspellings. You can add to and clarify existing stories. You can add your own stories. Adding pictures is harder than I would like as it is a two step process: upload the picture from the menu on the left and then add a link to the photo in the text.

With this power goes that anyone can also edit what you post. This allows others to correct typographical errors or to provide other perspectives on a story. It can get messy. At the top of each page is a talk button which allows a side discussion about the article of photo without changing the main text.

Respect Your Neighbors

The main general rule is to respect your neighbors. This is not a place for current political discussions or to entertain gossip. Some stories may involve the discussion of past politics, but again, be as factual as possible and try not to promote an ideology.

This website is run as a benevolent dictatorship; administrators have the final word about disagreements and may elect to block individuals or persons from future contributing. This is not a democracy nor does it protect anyone's right to free speech. It is hoped and expected that we can all play nicely and build this site together.

Sharing

This website wants to encourage sharing of contributions. That means that what you post can be used by others, as long as it is not commercial and they attribute where they got the material. You should not post copyrighted material without the written permission of the copyright holder. (Much of the current content violates this principle.)

How To Begin

You can search for a name or top with the search box at the top of this page, you can try one of the major topics below, or you can pick a random page from the menu at the left [on desktop versions].

• Reardan History

Work Items to prepare wiki to bring it up

• convert all pages of the current Hugo project
  • WWII
  • Cold War
  • Time-line (and add links where possible
  • Miscellaneous
• build tool chain to load documents and photos to wiki
  • NO convert md to wikitext... maybe use paradocs (paradocs isn't working, so use sed)
  • [x] learn to use a wikibot to do some of this work, although mainly to add the initial pages, upload picts, etc.
  • [ ] enhance the wikitext to include categories for wwii vets, vets, first-last, last-first, service branch, etc
  • [ ] add links back to the main topic somehow
  • [ ] add links to all referenced service people
  • [ ] fix the picture links
• [ ] port the photos to the wiki
• [ ] purchase more room on the server
• [ ] move the wiki to the real server

Other work items

• [ ] convert Some south Reardan homesteads to the wiki format
• [ ] post all early Reardan township ownership info
• [ ] post Dan's 1960 photographs
• [ ] add categories to each photo to make them more searchable
• [ ] fix broken file links

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.