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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Bandit127 on 07 September 2008, 22:14:09

Title: OOF Wiki?
Post by: Bandit127 on 07 September 2008, 22:14:09
Based on CEM's reply to Mark's excellent article on Compression Ratio (http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1220814542) and the possibily of more to come, how about an OOF Wiki?

Advantages:
It would solve the problem of the evergreen "coolant loss", "fault codes", "crank sensor" posts.
It would provide a central repository for FAQs, How-To and Knowledge Base articles.

Disadvantages:
I have no idea how to set one up, let alone administer one.
I am assuming it would be locally hosted, therefore server space and bandwidth limitations.

I am not criticising the current system . It works well in providing us with valuable, good quality information and is part of the reason why this is such a good forum.

It just strikes me that a Wiki is a better system for delivering that information in an accessible and efficient way.

I am no website expert, but I would be more than happy give up some of my own time to help out. I also have about 299.6 Gb a month free on my hosting account if it helps.





Title: Re: OOF Wiki?
Post by: dbug on 07 September 2008, 22:40:03
I would have thought Marks write up was a prime candidate for either the FAQs or Technical Info sections.  Surely no need to add yet another heading covering the same things?
Title: Re: OOF Wiki?
Post by: TheBoy on 08 September 2008, 10:38:44
In effect, you would end up with 2 different, seperate sites, each with different credentials, and covering same thing.

Because it becomes 2 seperate sites, we'd still get same posts, and still end up having to provide the URL to those who can't be bothered to look...