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Author of "101 Projects"
Join Date: Jan 1995
Location: Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Posts: 27,056
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Thanks everyone for your comments. My input:
- The Wiki stuff will be designed to suplement the tech articles - not really replace anything on the forums. People have suggested creating forum FAQs to capture useful information, this will allow us to do that.
- I will have editors to make sure the information is correct. I suspect that I will be doing at least some of the editing.
- It's good that we'll have information that can be added to and altered. When I write a tech article, I cannot simply know 100% of what is out there when writing. Some people will later email me, and let me know that the 12mm bolt I referenced in the tech article is actually a 13mm on a 912E. Then, of course, I have to go look to find out if that bolt is acutally a 12mm, or does this fellow who emailed me have a car that was messed with by a previous owner.
- The tech articles are not "Wiki" because I want full 100% editorial control of them. There has to be some editing involved when the article bears Pelican's name.
- This Wiki stuff will not replace the forums at all, in fact it will make most people here more knowledgeable of their cars. Think of it as expanding the tech articles section using content gleaned from the forums. I suspect some of the first projects will be to troll the archives for content lost and comparmentalize it in the Wiki format.
Seems like a good idea to me, if properly implemented.
-Wayne
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