Editing Book of Woo Wiki

=== Welcome to the new ''Book of Woo'' Wiki! ===

This is a new version of the ''Book of Woo'' wiki, originally created by ''foogod''. Most content of the old wiki could be migrated here thanks to a backup by Oliver Knörzer himself. I hope that this wiki will help somebody to solve the mystery!

[[User:Narga|Narga]] ([[User talk:Narga|talk]]) 17:09, 28 February 2018 (CET)

== Background ==

On July 29 2013, in celebration of the 500th strip of the webcomic ''Sandra and Woo'' (http://www.sandraandwoo.com/), author Oliver Knörzer (aka Novil) and artist Puri Andini (Powree) produced [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2013/07/29/0500-the-book-of-woo/ a special strip] in which the title character, Woo (a raccoon) had written a story, with a surprising twist.  The resulting document, as presented to the readers, was four pages full of dramatic illustrations and text apparently written in a strange language with a unique alphabet.  As much a work of art as a puzzle, deciphering the text was presented as a challenge to the readers (including a cash prize).

Inspired at least in part by the [[Wikipedia:Voynich manuscript|Voynich Manuscript]], Novil has stated that the text itself is a real story, and was created by way of an encryption process which can theoretically be reversed to obtain something close to the original (English or German) text.  To date, however, despite many attempts, nobody has been able to crack the code, and Woo's masterpiece remains unread by human eyes.

The title of the strip, and how the text itself has come to be known, is "The Book of Woo".  This wiki has been put together in an effort to provide a central collaboration space for any and all interested in helping to decipher this work.

== News ==
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== Wiki Starting Points ==

* [[Links and Resources]] -- Where to find the originals, discussions, tools, and other useful stuff elsewhere on the net.
* [[What We Know]] -- What we know to be true about the encrypted text, what is generally assumed, what is suspected, and what is currently confused or questionable.
* [[Transliterations]] -- Copies of various commonly-used transliterations of the original text into another alphabet/character-set (for easy manipulation, reference, quoting, etc).
* [[Analytical Results]] -- Results people have obtained from analyzing the text in various ways.
* [[Working Theories]] -- A place to note various people's current theories and lines of investigation.
* [[Artwork Interpretation]] -- A place for collecting thoughts/speculations/interpretations of the imagery found in the book's artwork.
* [[Work Organization]] -- A place where we are trying to organize what we already checked and what we need to check.