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Underground Library User Manual
Official Document
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UL01
Version 0.25, June 2009
Contents
1.Premises & Philosophy 1.1Why We're Here1.2How You Can Help1.2aWhy You Should Help1.3Purpose of this Document2.Technically Speaking 2.1Wikitastic2.2Using UL2.2aThe Wiki Template System2.2a-1 Infoboxes2.2bUsing Images2.2b-1 Uploading2.2b-2 Composition2.2b-3 Syntax2.2cWhat Works and What Doesn't2.2c-1Formatting2.2c-2Redirection & Titling2.3Open/Star/NeoOffice Plugin3.Elements of Bibliographic Style 3.1On Being Factual3.2On Covering The Subject3.3On Grammar 3.4On Citing Sources
Chapter One – Premises & Philosophy
1.1 Why We're Here
To document, promote, and sustain the literary underground in the most grassroots way possible: relying on the knowledge of said literary underground. To give incoming generationsof writers and publishers a sense of history from which they may learn and to which they cancontribute. To remain balanced and factual. To bring writing back to the reader.
Underground Library aims to do what MySpace has done for music: bring it to a globalaudience. Literary journals have for too long relied on writers to keep them alive. Every manshould write. Not every man writes well. It is imperative that there be an audience. There isnot. Instead there are submissions boxes full of our reader's submissions, because our readers are all writers. The Underground Library aims to be the premiere place for informationregarding x lit mag or y unknown/unpublished writer.
1.2 How You Can Help
The most important thing you can do for the underground literary world is contribute your knowledge.
If you've been writing for and reading online and underground literary journals longer than two years, you know more than you think: of defunct magazines, old gossip and truthsurrounding existing magazines. Chances are you were involved in at least one magazine bynow. If everyone contributes exactly the extent of their knowledge regarding a writer,magazine, press, or otherwise notable underground asset, this encyclopedia is sure flourishinto a compendium. Document what you know. Continue to do so as things return to your memory. We maintain an “Assignments” section to keep you motivated. A (growing) sysopsgroup will work to institute features you think are necessary.We'll always have blank spaces for new voices. Knowledge knows no preferentialdogma. Fact knows no master. Reference needs no excuse. Thank you for stopping by,please make yourself at home. Let the learning begin.
1.2a Why You Should Help
No one else is going to do this for us.
The people involved with UL are usually also involved in an ever-increasing number of other projects. They cannot be expected to know everything or to contribute everything. Theywill do what they can, but that is only so much. In a given year it is only possible to read somuch. To write so much. And we're already a solid fifteen-plus years behind.The biggest reason you should help is that it benefits you as much as the rest of us.Whether you're a beginning writer or an established and now-famous writer, your roots can bepreserved here at UL. Objective information about a given underground asset is invaluable if we are ever going to be taken seriously by the modern reading public(s).Thus the other biggest reason you should help is that it is your duty to do so. We're nottrying to instill some sense of debt to the community. If you don't feel that debt already, thenyou're probably not very interested in this site anyway.
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