
Special Content Project
In terms of PsychonautWiki content development, a Special Content Project (or SCP) refers to any kind of strategy or initiative meant to identify and improve parts of the site that are agreed to be lacking or needing urgent attention over an extended timescale.
SCPs are designed to draw attention to parts of the Wiki that are being actively worked on as well as increase the chances of community involvement and encourage readers to becoming active participants and contributors.
Active SCPs
- Project C-PSY ("Classicial Psychedelics") - If you would like to learn more about this SCP, please click here.
Purpose
An SCP can be thought of as strategic project of creating, revising organizing, or expanding on the informative and educational content available on the Wiki (i.e. making sure it is in accordance with its guidelines and values of the community) to optimize the speed in which the content is developed and refined.
Organization
SCPs are typically organized by administrators or scholars, who oversee the project in terms of identifying the tactics and resources that are needed and having a clear and focused sense on what to improve, ideally drawing and coordinating the effort with those who decide to volunteer after seeing the active project development panels. SCPs must have an easily identifiable project lead who takes on primary responsibility for the project and acts as its interface to greater site content development initiatives (such as increasing the scientific rigor and grounding of our claims).
Panels
All SCPs will have their own custom panel that denotes the page is under active development and therefore does not currently reflect the standards of the Wiki.
Protocols
Before an SCP can be officially initiated, one must first meet these requirements:
- Create an issue on our JIRA To-Do Board under the "Special Content Project" board.
- Create a PsychonautWiki page (see the page for Project C-PSY for an example.
- Design a panel from the template (e.g. search for Template: Project C-SPY Announce, copy it, then search for Template: Project X, create a new page, copy the contents and modify).
- Submit your proposal to an administrator or scholar.
Common Types of Requesting Help
- Ask for volunteers to help de-wikipediarip content, both content wise as well as in the citations
- Make yourself available in case anyone with expertise stumbles across it that ends up with an improved page :)
- Ask for sources, relevant claims, things, stuff of that nature.
- Plenty of others I can't think of right now.
Online References
Cross-References
Independent Research
- Google (i.e. search "xxx drug site:bluelight.org" for better results)
- Google Scholar (Don't forget the Chrome/Firefox extension as well!)
- Wikipedia
- PubMed (Database)
- PubChem (Database) (Useful for chemistry sections and SubstanceBox naming)
Forums
Tools
Common
- Dedicated Browser (e.g. separate install of Google Chrome or Firefox with dedicated bookmarks and folders)
- Sci-Hub (Use DOI codes or titles to get past paywalls for direct access to PDFs)
- Sci-Hub Links Browser Extension (converts DOI links to Sci-Hub links automatically)
Optional
- High-Quality Headphones or Sound System
- Mendeley Software
- Decent PDF Reader
- Sublime Notepad
- Armodafinil
- Modafinil
- N-Acetylcysteine
- L-Theanine
- Chamomile tea
Subjective effects
Note that these effects are highly variable and not as reliably induced as they are with psychoactive substances.
Physical effects
Cognitive effects
- Time distortion
- Focus enhancement
- Immersion enhancement
- Motivation enhancement
- Thought acceleration
- Thought connectivity
- Thought organization
- Multiple thought streams
- Cognitive euphoria
- Ego inflation