The Marilyn Manson Wiki:About

Several different designs for MansonWiki's Main Page. Top row: March 2007 and July 2007. Bottom row: January 2008 and Valentine's Day 2008; until May 13, 2010, the main page remained generally unchanged since this holiday rendition.

MansonWiki is an English encyclopedia project which aims to cover all things related to the rock band Marilyn Manson. The name MansonWiki is a portmanteau of the words "Manson" (the content to which the site valors) and "wiki" (a type of collaborative website). Since its creation on March 4, 2007, MansonWiki has grown steadily. There are currently 4,291 users registered with MansonWiki, and as of today, there are 4,157 featured articles in the encyclopedia.

History

"I once had this idea for a complete Manson website with articles, images, forums, quizzes, and everything else you can think of. The more I thought about it, the more ideas I got and the bigger it became in my head. It would be the ultimate Manson website.

Nothing happened.

Then someone on the phant suggested to start a MansonWiki, because the NinWiki was so popular. I did that, so yes, I guess I started all this. But then hardly anybody ever added information to it until Vixen came along, who if you ask me is responsible for 75% of the content on the wiki. Without him the wiki would be as useless as an empty beer bottle. You see what it is, you know what it's supposed to do, but there's just nothing in it.

After the wiki started growing and MansonUSA was down for the nth time I decided to add the forums, which have spawned a very small but interesting community mainly existing of me, vixen, cult killer, J.A., delandos, frau dietrich and blackeden (and sAINT, who's not around so much anymore).

Then I realised with a wiki and a forums we have the basis for that fantastic website I daydreamed of years ago. So now "Jones" [...] and I have started taking that idea to the next level"

— Stephan "Litso" Muller, MansonWiki Forums

MansonWiki was an idea which founder Stephan "Litso" Muller formed in early 2006. His original idea was to create a website from scratch, which would include a self-made content management system, including a wiki-based encyclopedia for Marilyn Manson, a tag-based and user-submitted image gallery, forums and an online radio station dedicated to the band's music. However, this idea eventually dissipated until when, in March 2007, Litso took notice to a thread on The Heirophant Council which requested a wiki for Marilyn Manson content. Litso's response to the thread was the creation of MansonWiki, which began based on his home server, before being relocated to his own domain, www.litso.com.

Shortly after MansonWiki went online, it was frequented by Alden "Vixen Windstorm" Weston (known at the time by the username Rtiztik). Upon his return to the website in May that year, Litso discovered Windstorm's contributions and became inspired to continue actively building MansonWiki. It was also at this time that Windstorm was appointed the second administrator for the website. Shortly after this, the website was moved from litso.com/mansonwiki to its current domain name. In November, a third administrator, JarvisGanon was appointed. On May 4, 2008, MansonWiki expanded its audience with the introduction of MansonWiki Forums,.

Litso, Jones and Vixen Windstorm went on to prepare a graphic overhaul for MansonWiki, which also included plans to merge MansonWiki and MansonWiki Forums into "one entity, so that the website can be looked at as more of a Marilyn Manson fan community anyone can edit and update, rather than a Marilyn Manson wiki with a forum that gets more action than the wiki itself. Imagine an editable Heirophant." This overhaul was later delayed indefinitely, due to Jones' disassociation with the project, as well as various distractions surfacing in both Litso's and Windstorm's personal lives preventing them from concentrating on the endeavour.

In the absence of Litso and Vixen Windstorm, two new administrators, [god]speed and ‡-me-‡, were appointed, revealing plans to update the appearance of the website as well as have MansonWiki enter into a partnership with the websites The Nachtkabarett, Seven1963, and Provider Module. Within weeks of the new administrators' appointment, Windstorm returned to MansonWiki Forums to announce his resignation from the website, citing a lack of interest or even the freedom to contribute in general due to distractions in real life, however Litso personally convinced him to reconsider his departure. Windstorm has since remained in contact with the MansonWiki community and has continued editing the website to some degree, however he considers himself too preoccupied to return to his figurehead role with MansonWiki at this time.

On May 13, 2010, the second incarnation of MansonWiki's design went online. This version was designed by [god]speed and ‡-me-‡ after months of deliberation and input from the MansonWiki community, including Litso and Windstorm. The design was coded by Belgian programmer Antickon, who was also responsible for coding The Nachtkabarett and its Babalon forum. The design features a completely different appearance from that of standard Wikimedia skins, contains a single advertisement to MansonWiki partner The Nacthkabarett and reprises the Rich Text "FCKeditor" which was implemented in the final week of MansonWiki's original incarnation. It was coinciding with the release of this new design that MansonWiki premiered its first exclusive interview, in which photographer Anthony Silva spoke about his endeavours with Marilyn Manson and personal projects, as well as shed light on some elements of the upcoming film Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll.

External links

• MansonWiki Forums
• Official MySpace profile
• Official YouTube channel