Earlybay Wiki

[mjknight71]

I been on the forum a little while and posted a couple of threads...mostly nonsense.....

....whilst a forum is fantastic for chat and asking questions, with it's linear nature it isn't always the best medium for storage or disemination of that information...twin carbs and disc vs drum brakes etc are common threads....but finding the threads again can be hard :roll: ....especially if you don't know it is there :? , or threads can become so long the 'information' can be lost in the chat .....not wanting to stop the chat......

How about would peeps feel about us branching out into a earlybay wiki :?

We could use it as a repository for our collective knowledge, a mecca of early bay information....well Aaron's anyway :wink:

For those techophobes....if you can type into a thread, you can publish on a wiki 8) ...they are that simple....generally they are free to host :mrgreen: ...we can manage or not access as we like.....for an example of one I set up last year for Danbury Buses see http://vwdanburycamper.wetpaint.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What are your thoughts.......

 

[the councillor]

:wink:

 

[froggy]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[mcvw]

I agree, wiki's can be great - but their content is only as accurate/good/useful as the people that contribute to them (some of the wiki's that I've used at different client sites have been appalling).

Perhaps if one or two moderators were to approve what content would be published I think it could be very useful.

 

[Graham L]

Again think it would be a good idea but content should be approved before being released to the wiki, the only problem is that this adds extra pressure onto the moderators so perhaps we would need some wiki moderators








Aaron are you reading this!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

PS: Councillor were the hell do you get all your images from, you must spend as much time on google images as you do posting on this forum :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[the councillor]

PS: Councillor were the hell do you get all your images from, you must spend as much time on google images as you do posting on this forum :lol: :lol: :lol:

the internet is a gift for emotionally retarded *supergeeks* such as myself... i try to live a relatively normal, respectable everyday existence, but there's all the *other* stuff bubbling away under the surface, monkey owl skulls and quarks and all the rest of it, and there's only so much of that nonsense mrs councillor can take, and that's where places like this are worth their weight in platinum.

i've got all the images stored in my head, so when i read the 'wiki' idea i instantly thought of the dog sitting there listening intently, whilst not being able to understand a great deal of it, and thought of the majority of us on here, but with the name 'ginger' being substituted by 'earlybay'.

in the olden days i would just have had a chuckle to myself, but i have become 1% computer literate, and the miracle of the internet means i can just type in 'gary larson what we say to dogs' and hey presto thousands of images in a millisecond... it really IS an amazing tool... i wonder if there are any other uses for it ?

the flip side of the 'fun' is that i spent a good half an hour on tuesday trying to construct a nationwide extended westy sliding door handle distribution map, listing all the known ones in the uk in private ownership in black, and all the ones that clem has got stashed away in his 'keeping them from the councillor' cupboard in red, but in the end i had to give up on it because i didn't like the font that 'paint' had chosen for me, and i didn't have the knowledge to change it :roll:

a gift and a curse then...

 

[Benyon]

Reading your post Councillor, chuckling away at my desk I thought I'd reply by telling you how funny I found your response, but I thought'd I'd try and step up a level so instead of a simple replying with 'ROFL' or 'LMAO' I typed "roll around on the floor laughing" into Google images but the best picture it gave me was a picture of a horse!

I think I'll leave the anecdotes and clever replies to someone clearly more intelligent than I!

edit: (and then despite it being there in preview I can't even stick the bloody picture in anyway :x )

 

[mjknight71]

I agree, wiki's can be great - but their content is only as accurate/good/useful as the people that contribute to them (some of the wiki's that I've used at different client sites have been appalling).

true but no different to a forum... :lol: