A wiki in Doom9?

[Burning Fury]

I was just wondering, if you guys thought of putting a Wiki.

This will help tremendously to the site, for the fact that it will minimize the threads by regularly updating the ones that are already open via an "edit" option.

A Topic thread could be updated via user comments, and kept "alive" by updating the info in it.

Or if the topic at hand has never been discussed, it will require to open a new thread.

So, whenever a new or experienced user has something to contribute, we can all benefit from it, and if the info it's not correct or outdated, it can always be changed.

Just a thought.

Laterz :)

[check]

Well, it would be a bad idea to REPLACE the forums with a wiki, but as an accompaniment it would be great.
Wikis are great for storing data like what we have, which is regularly updated, but discussions on them are terrible - hard to follow and easy to get lost in, a real forum works orders of magnitude better.

[mod]

IMO a wiki section for selected developers would be really good.
To avoid the mess it could simply be read-only for non-developers..
Note: this forum is already great! ;)

[Zarxrax]

I think a wiki for keeping up to date information and links to software would be great. I mean its kinda hard to find the latest versions of things like FFDShow, and know what the differences are between the various builds, because you have to read through pages and pages of a thread trying to find out. And you go searching for stuff in the forum, and you can easily come across information that is outdated and such.

[*.mp4 guy]

IMO a wiki section for selected developers would be really good.
Ehm, there are quite a few non-developers who Have made significant contributions here, If there were to be a wiki here It would be best to avoid artificially limiting its gene pool.

[mod]

Ehm, there are quite a few non-developers who Have made significant contributions here, If there were to be a wiki here It would be best to avoid artificially limiting its gene pool.
Hmm.. I think you're right :)

[Revgen]

Clouded started an avisynth wiki awhile ago but became ill.

[Shinigami-Sama]

I think a wiki for keeping up to date information and links to software would be great. I mean its kinda hard to find the latest versions of things like FFDShow, and know what the differences are between the various builds, because you have to read through pages and pages of a thread trying to find out. And you go searching for stuff in the forum, and you can easily come across information that is outdated and such.
god I know, and mirrors die off so fast o.o
I think the one I found a month or two ago is already out of date by a few releases...

so yeah, but an invite only wiki would be a good idea imo, atleast for things like lastest releases, and such

[check]

invite only? That would be exactly the same as the current system, only we would have out of date information on only one page rather than many :P
Wikis work best when anyone can contribute, and if it was promoted / used heavily. When anyone can contribute, yes there will be vandals, but there will be many more people with good intentions.
It would be interesting to start it and see what happens. There are many different needs that would shape its use, the best way to see what happens would be a live experiment :)

[Caroliano]

The wiki can replace very well many stickies of the forum and even some site pages. Richard Berg said that "Right now too much knowledge is buried in 30-page threads" and I agree with him. A wiki is a much pratical way to display that knowledge. With anyone being able to help is better, and the only requiriment is the registration as in this forum.

HA comunity (a doom9 for audio) made that and it is working very well: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org

[sysKin]

Forum is, unfortunately, hopeless as knowledge repository. Wiki might be better (depending on user's behaviour..), imho it's worth trying.

[Doom9]

Well, ideas are nice, but something has to worry about practical aspects:
Who has the knowledge and experience to set up and administrate such a software?
Who's willing to work as a mod? If everybody can contribute, it is a must that there is a group of people that is always around and can get rid of undesireable content in a short fashion. Perhaps some mods here would like to volunteer, but I guess we'd need new people as well (I for instance haven't even been able to write a single line of code for megui so I really have no time for another project).
Then there's the question of hardware and bandwidth.

[check]

Another question is of content. What should go in and what should not? If a wiki was created, a good starting philosophy might be the good ol' "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" approach. Then after a <insert suitable length of time here>, you can work out what works and stick (no pun intended) with that.

[Zarxrax]

Well, mediawiki is fairly simple to set up and administer.

Ideally, a wiki wouldnt need specially approved people to clean things up, as anyone who is knowledgable about the subject can fix inaccuracies that are introduced. In the case of pure vandalism, its simple enough for most common users to revert the page to an earlier version.

Bandwidth and hardware might be a tougher question. I just now realized that you've been providing this site for all these years without any intrusive ads getting in the way. Much appreciated :)