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saint:
Thanks Felsir :)
We also have the slight added benefit that you have to be a member of the message forum before you can post on the wiki, which adds a bit of nuisance filter to it.
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--- Quote from: MiKman on March 29, 2006, 11:00:17 pm ---For the uninformed can someone give the basic idea/rundown of what wiki is and how it works, etc?
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Nevermind I found it :-) big "L"
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Even though you found it, there are probably other people who don't (yet) know reading this.
Basically a Wiki is based on the principle "everyone knows something, together we know a lot". A Wiki is a site that gathers knowledge on a subject (or many subjecs as with Wikipedia). Everyone who knows something about the subject can add or edit the texts on the pages. This way the common knowledge will grow. This is mainly what wiki's are about.
Some people will say: "Hey,if anyone can edit this, won't this be vandalised?"
The wiki community keeps watch over articles to make sure the content is still correct. This is based on the human principle that everyone is curious to what happened to the texts he or she added. So the people who often contribute to the wiki will look at the articles they contributed to and in this way errors etc are quickly noticed.
A wiki is the complete opposite of a system where all documents are to be approved first. The latter will probably produce better documentation but tends to be extremely slow. The wiki method provides a quick way to update information, and it is exactly this strength that makes the content almost on par with the 'approval' method since errors are quickly corrected.
So far, Wikipedia is proof that the wiki concept works (researchers compared a bunch of wikipedia articles to the Encyclopedia Brittanica and found the content of equal quality).
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SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Felsir on March 30, 2006, 05:43:07 am ---So far, Wikipedia is proof that the wiki concept works (researchers compared a bunch of wikipedia articles to the Encyclopedia Brittanica and found the content of equal quality).
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Apparently that comparison article that talked about it was made up. But that could just be someone retaliating against it.
That is a problem with Wiki, someone could put up some information, someone else changes, and the information goes back and forth. But I think for this community that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Howard_Casto:
I'm having trouble logging in.... it says my username is invalid. Could this possibly be because my user name has an underscore in it? I know many systems hate that.
Felsir:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on March 30, 2006, 11:55:16 am ---
--- Quote from: Felsir on March 30, 2006, 05:43:07 am ---So far, Wikipedia is proof that the wiki concept works (researchers compared a bunch of wikipedia articles to the Encyclopedia Brittanica and found the content of equal quality).
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Apparently that comparison article that talked about it was made up. But that could just be someone retaliating against it.
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The research was done by Nature magazine and has appeared in print in the magazine (pdf). Brittanica claimed the research was inaccurate, Nature magazine responded.
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on March 30, 2006, 11:55:16 am ---That is a problem with Wiki, someone could put up some information, someone else changes, and the information goes back and forth. But I think for this community that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
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For wikipedia, it's strength in numbers - the sheer amount of serious wikipedian's currenly by far outnumber the few who vandalise it. So incorrect of unverifyable information is usually quickly removed. As long as info is verifyable it can stay in, otherwise it has got to go.
Either way, as powerful as a wiki can be, it stands or falls by the way the community treats it. The BYOAC community is a rather mature community and all are very enthusiast about their hobby. So I think we won't have to deal with edits by L337 d00ds (the safety mechanism to only have forummembers is good enough to guarantee the wiki is made by and made for the BYOACers).
sirwoogie:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on April 02, 2006, 03:51:31 pm ---I'm having trouble logging in.... it says my username is invalid. Could this possibly be because my user name has an underscore in it? I know many systems hate that.
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Try using a space instead of the '_' Mediawiki treats an underscore and space the same way. If that doesn't work, I might be able to force this somehow. Since I tie it to the forum with a special authentication plugin, I might have some more digging to do.
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