Welcome!
I am trying to keep alive the idea of building an interactive library of projects and kits that members have experience with or interest in. I hope everyone will be encouraged to add appropriately named pages for others to read and/or contribute to.
It's really very easy to begin. Just go to the "click here now to edit this wiki page" at the bottom of the category page you just came from. Type the name of your project in the appropriate category. In this case you will first type three asterisks (indicating a subcategory), a space, and then your project name within double brackets - for instance ((Eros MkII)
?) - minus that question mark, and voila! you have just made your own simple webpage! Now you can type in your project, cut and paste to it, add images, and link to webpages outside of the wiki. There is a very quick and easy primer available
[here] that can get you started with simple wiki tools.
If there is a known kit that you might hope to attract input on, you can simply add the name in the appropriate category. The project will appear unhighlighted followed by a hypertext question mark for as long as the page goes empty. Click on the question mark to access the page. As soon as anyone puts info in the page the named link itself will become hypertext.
I still don't know how this wiki loudspeaker library is going to develop - the social protocols of wiki communities having not yet developed - but a little sensible practice should probably be observed. If you wish to make alterations to project pages, seek consensus for them in the Loudspeaker forum and with the original contributor, where possible, before going ahead. It would be less problematic however if you simply identified your suggestions by way of links to another page. You need only click over to the edit page, name the link to your idea/change/proposal and enclose it in pairs of brackets, save the page, and your idea will show up as a highlighted hyperlink in the original page. Click on this hypertext link, and a blank page will pop up for you to fill in as you please. You have instantly created a new page for others follow. This is the interesting part of the project. And because of this ease of editing, it is a simple matter for anyone to comment as specific parts and drivers become more and less available, and to recommend sources.
Please contribute more ideas for the organization of this part of the wiki - the range of cost? - Loudspeaker types? etc.... At some point, perhaps when the categories get well ironed out, someone might want to organize the entire page of categories into hyperlinks. I am too much a novice and afraid I may just embed troublesome bugs in the foundation.
| Comments from another user: Social protocols with a wiki might seem tricky, but in practice it seems to work out quite well. The problem with this wiki seems to be more one of getting the concept to take off. Members seem hesitant to make changes in general, but I think we should all be open to other members changing anything that we enter. Those who want to voice their opinion and not have it edited can get a free website. While I don't think it's polite to make sweeping changes to a perfectly valid wiki page without regard for the original author, I see no harm in members making minor corrections. In fact this is one of the strengths of a wiki. If it is active, errors can be kept in check. I think it's also fair that if a wiki page contains an opinion, that those with an alternative opinion should be polite in either adding their opinion, or adding a link to a page expressing theirs as an alternative. My concern is that if there is too much red tape, the idea will have no chance of taking off. My experience has been that members are much more likely to not contribute, than to do so in an inappropriate way. |
