I built Westie Wiki, a community-edited catalog of WCS moves with timestamped video examples
Hi all. I've been working on a side project called Westie Wiki (westie.wiki) and it's at the point where it's more useful with more people in it, so I wanted to share it here.
The idea: every WCS pattern gets a page with its names and aliases, a description, difficulty, and timestamped YouTube clips of real dancers at real events. Full dances are mapped move by move, so you can just to specific moves. You can also play segments of the video on loop and slowed down.
A few things worth knowing before you look:
- Anyone can browse; editing takes a free account. Every edit is recorded Wikipedia-style, with history, diffs, and restore, so you can't really break anything.
- Videos stay on YouTube. We only link clips uploaded by the dancers themselves or the event, or shared with the dancer's explicit permission.
- The code is open source at github.com/bendichter/westie-wiki.
I recorded a 6-minute walkthrough if you'd rather watch than click around.
It's early and the content is thin. If a move you know is missing or described in a way that doesn't match how your scene dances it, that's exactly the kind of edit the site exists for. And if something is broken or confusing, I'd genuinely like to hear it, either in the comments or as a GitHub issue.