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Arcade Collecting => Pinball => Topic started by: Pinball Wizard on April 21, 2011, 09:00:25 pm

Title: PinWiki, The New Place For Everything Pinball
Post by: Pinball Wizard on April 21, 2011, 09:00:25 pm

With recent news that pinrepair.com was going into the pay for info format, I have created a new website, PinWiki.com, designed to give a new way to access and contribute repair info. In normal wiki format, PinWiki, is going to officially launch at 9pm EST. I need everyone to start contributing their info to the wiki so it can grow quickly and be a great resource. I promise I will never turn this into a pay for information service, nor will I take credit for your own information. I also have included a forum for all the pinheads to discuss pinball. Again, I ask you contribute any knowledge you have to the wiki so that PinWiki can become a good resource for all.

Edit: Forget to mention but I am looking for a moderator or two for both the wiki and forums, please let me know if your interested.

Title: Re: PinWiki, The New Place For Everything Pinball
Post by: amendonz on April 21, 2011, 09:12:59 pm

good work mate  :cheers:

hope it catches on in a big way.

Title: Re: PinWiki, The New Place For Everything Pinball
Post by: Pinball Wizard on April 21, 2011, 09:17:13 pm

Thanks! Oh and like an idiot I forgot the stinkin' website address :banghead: its www.pinwiki.com (http://www.pinwiki.com)

Title: Re: PinWiki, The New Place For Everything Pinball
Post by: Ken Layton on April 22, 2011, 02:29:43 am

I just contributed some data to the Atari pinball section.

Title: Re: PinWiki, The New Place For Everything Pinball
Post by: Pinball Wizard on April 22, 2011, 10:42:00 am

It can't hurt to have more than one place for this kind of info even if pin repair.com comes back.

Title: Re: PinWiki, The New Place For Everything Pinball
Post by: Pinball Wizard on April 22, 2011, 11:24:26 am

Luckily, I own a hosting company, so my costs are minimal, and no GoDaddy ad will ever be there.

I do not have plans for hosting the old pinrepair.com info. Problem is that I don't want to be arguing over copyrighted information.

Title: Re: PinWiki, The New Place For Everything Pinball
Post by: RayB on April 23, 2011, 01:32:18 pm

I'd rather support PW than that tool at pinrepair.
(and as for "copyright", PR's stuff is all amalgamated from various sources. The site even says as much. So the fact that he's holding it hostage and charging for access is even more dickish.)

Title: Re: PinWiki, The New Place For Everything Pinball
Post by: ChadTower on April 23, 2011, 06:15:53 pm

It is well established that Clay's guide was actually written by many people and also culled from RGP over the years.  If everyone feels so strongly why has nobody publicly mirrored it to make sure this doesn't happen again? 

Title: Re: PinWiki, The New Place For Everything Pinball
Post by: Jeff AMN on April 24, 2011, 05:32:07 am

I set up pinballwiki.com some time ago and seeing the pinrepair stuff go down made me go back and look at it. I guess my permissions weren't strong enough and the whole site had become a link farm for spammers. I've cleared that out, but I've lost many, many articles. If anybody wants to register and toss some info up, feel free.

For pinwiki.com, I HIGHLY suggest you throw some secure protection on the articles or you'll have a mess on your hands. Good luck.