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Spockie-Tech
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RoboWars WIKI Online - The RoboWars Encyclopedia of Widsom
Greetings Builders.
An idea I have been toying with for a while as my web-skills develop, has now made it into the light of day.. [fanfare]
The RoboWars Wiki !
WTF is a Wiki ? Oh.. For those of you havent heard of WikiPedia yet.. well, its basically a
User Editable Web Page
- Yes, a web-page that you can edit directly from your browser with not too much more trouble than using the forum's BBCodes. - The idea is simple, how well it works depends on *you*.
Want to share your latest modification guide ? Post information on an upcoming event ? An Event Report ? Have a bot-stats page without having to go through all the hassle of a web-server and Dreamweaver-ing ? Wiki's are the easiest way to do it
Why not just use the Forum ? Well, as we all know, general chatter in the forum can quickly drown out the useful information, to the point where Newbies ask the same questions over and over again instead of using the search function..
A WikiPage can be a FAQ that you can keep tidy, ask for others to add to, update and improve and many other things. If you want to have a look at the most successful Wiki in the world, cruise on over to
http://en.wikipedia.org/
and you will get the idea.
The Wiki will probably start slowly, but once more content is added, I'll link it into the Main RoboWars page and it will take a more prominent position in the WebSite.
It may even supplant the great (and dusty) Ultimate Guides section as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom.
Anyway, be gentle with it, I'm new to administering a Wiki and there may be a few minor issues to sort out to begin with, although I've given it a fairly good test so far. - Editing is restricted to registered users only to start with, So Register an Account Username/Password, then PM to grant you edit access.. and please read the fairly-simple guides linked to at the bottom and have a play in the "Sandbox" First.
If you write some massive treatise or Bot-Page that takes up 20 pages, please keep a copy of the WikiCode on your PC until its proven stable, just incase it heads for the Bit-Bucket (unlikely) and If you have any questions, post them here please.
The RoboWars Wiki is at
http://Wiki.RoboWars.org
Enjoy ! _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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No, post away, just be considerate and thoughtful.
The idea of a Wiki is that the intelligent people will hopefully outweigh the vandals, and the wiki makes it very easy for any of the intelligent people to look at the changes made by a twit and go "thats wrong / rude / whatever" and simply push the rewind buttont to return it to the way it was before it was edited, or else correct the other users mistake, add-to-, expand or whatever is appropriate.
Nothing is lost, the Wiki stores the original and the changes and shows who did them, and allows pages to have "owners" who can be notified as soon as a change is made to that page (using RSS which I'll discuss soon), so they generally stay in pretty good shape.
If you want to put up a page on microswitching techniques, go ahead, just make sure you link it from the right area, and keep it looking readable and your contriutions would be welcome. but dont be surprised if others add-to- or update it. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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