Welcome to the Dragon Code Memorial Wiki!
In the long-ago days of the 1990s, I was (somewhat) active in the Usenet group alt.fan.dragons. The population consisted of dragon fans, dragon roleplayers, dragon-oriented scalies, draconic otherkin… and, indeed, a wide variety of other folks of various self-identifications who felt comfortable in a heavily dragon-adjacent environment.
In that kind of community, an ability to quickly describe oneself was helpful, and so there was developed the Dragon Code, a kind of shorthand in the style of the Geek Code in which one's species, personality, and other aspects could be recorded in one's signature block for those who knew how to read it (or had a decoder to do the job for them). There was an original code (DC), eventually replaced by a similar, though non-backward-compatible, revised code (DC2), which was itself refined over the years.
I'm no longer active in AFD, as is the case with many others; Usenet is no longer what it once was, and if the community has a successor with any kind of continuity on some more vital platform - Discord, maybe - I haven't yet heard of it. I named this wiki the Dragon Code Memorial Wiki in acknowledgement of the fact that I don't know how much it actually remains in use, even on the Usenet group. If there exists a Discord- or Guilded-based successor, the code's function has probably been replaced by user role self-assignment and similar. Despite that, I remain fascinated with it and would like to help keep it, if not alive, then at least preserved.
The sites that originally hosted the Dragon Code are either gone, preserved only by the Internet Archive, or at least no longer actively maintained. For a modern attempt to preserve the Revised Dragon Code's documentation, see Bluefire's excellent site, which is very faithful to the source. Building a wiki to do exactly the same job is therefore, other than my preference for the wiki format, probably thoroughly unnecessary; however, my purpose here is slightly different in that I will be attempting at least a bit of analysis and explanation, especially of terms that might not be familiar (many of the species tags, for example, are rather obscure), and I will probably be injecting my own opinions in various places.