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We should have a wiki!

randomlugia

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I think it would be really awesome to make a part of the website with links and information about lasers.

This is random, but this site has a link at the top for their own wiki: Speedsolving.com Wiki (it's about rubik's cubes)

Kind of like that. I don't want to be responsible for making something like this, but I wanted to see what you all thought of the idea. It would keep less people from posting simple questions that could have been answered by searching.
 





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The thing about wiki is that its all editable and subject to interpretation.
 
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Then just make it editable by mods. We could pm the page to a mod, and they approve, they'll add it.

And not like that. One that's a part of the site, and will link to all the important posts and stickies.
 
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zaery said:
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I'll be damned if I would write up a nice article and have some moron edit it.
 
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photonaholic said:
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I'll be damned if I would write up a nice article and have some moron edit it.
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Wiki's actually get trolled quite a bit less often than forums, because people can edit it. If one moron deletes an entire article, someone else might see it and go back a revision(it keeps a full history) Also, they already have some useful stuff, and anyone can make it a bit better at a time, you don't have to write an entire article.

Also, going to fix the "where to buy goggles" part of the FAQ right now, it only mentions stonetek and wickedlasers.
 
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photonaholic said:
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I'll be damned if I would write up a nice article and have some moron edit it.
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Agreed about the Morons and even Sabotuers.... ^^^^^

Besides we have all the Stickies and FAQs to answer 90% of questions...


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I get a charge how frequently people on forums (not just this one) refer to wikipedia as if it were gospel.

when I google something, wikipedia is not going to be my destination click.

the gross amount of misinformation just turns me off.
 
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randomlugia said:
Then just make it editable by mods. We could pm the page to a mod, and they approve, they'll add it.

And not like that. One that's a part of the site, and will link to all the important posts and stickies.
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Then that defeats the purpose.
 
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How does it defeat the purpose, if we can send new information, and have it verified?
 
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It becomes pretty much the same as a tutorial or faq thread on the forum.
 
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