Wikis are a wonderful idea, especially where the accuracy of the subject matter is hotly debated, and rarely black and white. They certainly make life easier for those who need the info. But that said, they are an absolute nightmare to moderate. Unless the moderators are one stop knowledge shops, and people don't mind accepting their words as the be all and end all, you might as well stick with a forum. SEO is after all as much popular myth as it is researched fact. All told, I'd happily contribute to such an endeavor, though I doubt anyone but the most enthusiastic of folk with loads of time on their hands would consider modding it. Just my 2 cents. Cheers, JL
That's the major reason I'e been reluctant to do it. Moderating it would be a nightmare, and the nature of the subject matter would make it worse. You would get marketers/SEOs in there self-promoting their own stuff which is hard enough to manage in the forum as it is. If you give everyone the ability to edit everyone's post here, you would end up with a wiki-like management nightmare.
I know this goes against the very concept of a wiki, but what about restricting the who can actually edit the wiki. For example you must have +3000 posts in the forum to edit an article and +4000 to create a new one. Because of the difficulty to get to so many posts, editors would be very careful to add/edit articles. You could then have an open discussion, (here on the forum), where the users with much less posts would try and ask an editor to add/edit an article for them. It works with wikipedia, I am sure it could work here. I would be happy to use one of my servers, but I don't have the, (quality ) user base you have here. FFMG
I see it possible, but the problem is that everyone will want to get their links in into the "web links" section on the bottom. Who will be in charge of those?
3000+ post requirement seems a little high, I would think that you would want to encourage its growth a little more than that. I haven't tried counting but I would think that there are that many people in this forum that have pasted that number. I know there are some, but I was under the impression a wiki is normally based on many people editing and correcting the information, this would limit it to just a few.
norefer code would probably be in in. On my wiki, every single time some one adds something, I have to edit it!! It would be like the mods having to edit every single post here to fiz puncuation, spalling, gramer, wiki code...!! Once some one tried to add a java redirect to there site! *banned*
I think that every link added needs to be traceable back to who posted it - so people don't start spamming.