SPwiki: The Streetplay Wiki

Last week, I wrote about the Camp wiki, extolling its promise as a much-needed, collaboratively developed repository of camp-worthy games and activities. The theory behind all this wikification is that, given a community of like-minded fun-seekers (or fun-minded like-seekers), it should be possible to develop an extensive, ever-growing repository of gamish knowledge, that only becomes more valuable as more people contribute.

This week, it is with at least equally profound pleasure that I inform you that Streetplay, one of the few sites devoted to the inner-city street games of the 40s, 50s and 60s, has launched its very own Streetplay Wiki, a.k.a. SPwiki. Now, you, too can exhume and immortalize your rapidly fading memories of those ad hoc, informal, unofficial, homemade neighborhood games that you played on the streets and sidewalks and front steps and back yards of your childhood.

Read. Play. Join. Contribute.


from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith