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Welcome to Whiskipedia.org

This website has been set up to be the definitive online resource for all things Whisk(e)y.

IF YOUR PROPOSED ENTRY IS NOT ABOUT WHISK(E)Y DON'T PUT IT UP! IT WILL BE DELETED.

Using Whiskipedia is really simple - to find something of interest, simply enter keywords into the search box on the left-hand side of this page.

If you don't find what you're looking for, you'll be invited to create a page (registered members only), and you can start an entry on any whisk(e)y-related topic you wish. Over time, as more people add, edit and refine the entries, we hope this website will become the number one source for information on whisk(e)y available on the internet.

READ THIS PAGE BEFORE YOU PROCEED

First of all, our thanks are due to Gavin Smith, well-known whisky author, who has kindly provided the overwhelming bulk of the site at launch (1st January 2008) in full recognition that you will probably all mangle it unrecognisably. The launch text is drawn from Gavin's excellent and authoritative book Whisky: A Book of Words (Carcanet Press, 1993),and subsequent paperback edition The A-Z of Whisky (NWP). A new and fully revised edition will be published sometime in 2008. BUY THIS BOOK! [1]

However comprehensive this initial coverage it can never be totally complete and some entries require revision. THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN! The site is arranged in classic 'wiki' format, which means you can add new articles and edit existing entries. Please feel free to do so, bearing in mind some commonsense rules for behaviour:

1. Please log in and identify yourself. With effect from 4 January, due to the high levels of spam and malicious postings, only Registered Users can edit. Sorry.

2. Please respect the opinions and views of other users and do onto others as you would be done by. We're a community - be nice.

3. Distillers/Brand Owners: By all means post an entry on your brand/distillery/key personnel, but confine yourself to matters of fact and historical record. 'Flogs' and blatant puffs will be removed and, if you keep doing it, you'll be blocked! Kindly don't pretend to be a consumer - we've seen that trick before.

4. The site administrator's decisions are final. They may also be arbitary, inconsistent, capricious and downright wilful. Get over it.

In the words of Austin Powers "Oh, behave." Enjoy the site. Have fun.

If you have thoughts and comments, you can email me at ian@thewhiskychannel.com. By the way, you should visit that site. [2]

Ian Buxton

Site Administrator

1st January 2008.

Copyright etc.

This site is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence [3]

You are free:

• to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work • to Remix — to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

• Attribution. Unless otherwise noted on an individual page, you must attribute the work to www.whiskipedia.org (but not in any way that suggests that we endorse you or your use of the work). • Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same, similar or a compatible license.

EDITING and POSTING NEW PAGES

Regrettably, there has been a certain degree of nonsense and spam appearing on the site, so with immediate effect you have to be a registered user to edit. Sorry, but it's terribly tedious removing entries about Tibetan tourism, American politics, Indian train timetables, sexy Chinese lingerie and personal abuse (just to mention some of the nonsense we've had to deal with in less than 4 days!).

IMAGES

Image upload is now enabled. See Aeneas MacDonald for an example.

4th January 2008