Welcome to the Wongery!
The Wongery is a site for information about imaginary worlds. The
core features of the Wongery are the
Central Wongery, a wiki with content created by
the site's owners, and the Public Wongery,
where anyone can post their creations. All of the main content of
these wikis is released under an open license, so anyone can use it
for their own works, subject to the license's conditions.
Furthermore, aside from the description of the world, there are pages
devoted to additional applications, including RPG statistics, LEGO
models, and more.
If you're new here, feel free to browse the Central
Wongery or the Public Wongery, check out
the forum, or read the blog
to see a bit of the site's history.
(Yes, we know the site could really use some illustrations, among other things. The Wongery
is still very much a work in progress.)
So, we're two weeks into 2026, and I had... kind of a lot of resolutions I'd been hoping to keep this year, so I figured I'd check in and analyze how I'm doing so far. Yes, I said I was going to do quarterly check-ins, and two weeks is not a quarter of a year—it is in fact approximately one twenty-sixth of a year—but I figured I'd do a check-in now for a couple of reasons, one of which being that I kind of added two new resolutions that I also wanted to discuss.
But first, how am I doing with the existing resolutions? Well, it's a mixed bag. A few of them I'm doing very well with so far; with others I'm not really on track. Unfortunately (for the purposes of this site), it's mostly the resolutions least related to the Wongery that I'm doing best at, and the ones most related to the Wongery that I'm doing worst at. But let's take a look at them one by one:
- Get regular exercise
- This one I have been doing!...
Alas, the last new article in the Central Wongery mainspace was posted more than four months ago, on September 8, 2025[1]. But today... no, I still haven't finished another new article; sorry. But I have finally finished rewriting and expanding an old article. (And the last time I did that was on August 10, 2025[2].
Okay, that may not seem like much, but this is something I've been working on for a while, and it really was a major expansion. The article in question is the Free Republic of Avelax, and prior to the rewrite it was 779 words long (according to LibreOffice's word count<ref>Not that I wrote the article in LibreOffice (and even if I had, I'd have had to remove much of the wiki markup before performing a wordcount), but after posting the article I copied the text of the article body and pasted...
- ↑ It was the City Proscribed, in case you're curious, which you probably weren't.
- ↑ It was Soul War, in case you're curious. Which you probably weren't.
Happy New Year 2026!
So one year ago today, on January 1 2025, I made a blog post in which I listed some New Year's resolutions I hoped to fulfill over the next year. I'm going to revisit those revolutions now and we'll see how many of them I accidentally succeeded at keeping. I'll give you a hint: it's the only real number that has no reciprocal.
- Get regular exercise
- Um... okay, I sort of did this during the beginning of the year, but then not so much at the end, and there were reasons I won't go into why I wasn't doing it for at least part of that time, but... not for all of it. I don't even have to go to a gym for this; I have exercise equipment in my bedroom; but it's still a bit of a challenge to find time for exercise. My general plan was to get up early and exercise first thing in the morning (except perhaps on days when I have to be at work particularly early), which, all things considered, isn't a bad plan, but... I haven't been doing it.
- Start...
