[Grady Clay]

Shawn,

I was proposing this as only one of possibly hundreds of initial subjects.

Your question is possibly better addressed on the Forum. With a Search, there is already a lot.

The goal here is to turn that Forum information into a cohesive article that can possibly answer your question. If not, there are then links to threads on the same or similar subjects. This allows anyone to ‘revive’ an appropriate dormant thread to continue discussion on a particular subject.

With a Wiki-Pelican Tech Article, all of the relevant information can be edited, peer reviewed and linked to original sources. Only a few Forum Threads currently do that. It is also time consuming to produce a proper Search result.

We are basically talking about a ‘Search Result’ that turns into a permanent Wiki-Tech Article yet is still editable and has peer review.

IMHO, this issue is how to take the collective knowledge and questions from a diverse group and turn that into useable and easily accessible information. The Technical Forum is the ‘soil’ from which something might grow. The Tech Article is the final (but ‘live’) result. The ‘feedback’ forum is the correcting feature.

I think there are several significant features:
The original input should be open, errors, BS and all. The Forum peer influence makes the system self-correcting if you look close enough.

The editors of a Tech Article are only so knowledgeable. To keep the Article accurate, complete and even well written requires the feedback from an open (linked) forum.

There are also situations where there are legitimate conflicting opinions. That situation should be presented and then discussed/argued on a public forum. The Tech Article editor(s) then must become moderator(s). Wayne should have the last say.

Wayne, why not start with a 101 subject and all the Forum references? This could make an enhanced Tech Article, ready for a 2nd Ed.

There is a lot more to this. I am absolutely not an expert at these IT issues.

Best,
Grady