Forumotion Wiki

Sep

2010

There should be an official Forumotion wiki. It has how-to articles that anyone could make and read. I would love to see and work on that wiki, and it would really benefit Forumotion. What do you think?

1 LH Justin, on 13/09/2010 at 23h43

I've never liked wikis, plus I don't see the benefit. Pretty much everything someone would want to do to their forum is posted in the FAQ or Tips & Tricks section.

2 Jeremjay24, on 13/09/2010 at 23h44

Well, anyone could add information to certain articles to bring its quality up to the highest extent.

3 LH Justin, on 13/09/2010 at 23h53

Jeremjay24 wrote:Well, anyone could add information to certain articles to bring its quality up to the highest extent.

Or the lowest. Wink

4 Jeremjay24, on 14/09/2010 at 00h27

LH Justin wrote:
Jeremjay24 wrote:Well, anyone could add information to certain articles to bring its quality up to the highest extent.
Or the lowest.

Yeah, but powerful tools built in with MediaWiki like rollback could revert the bad edits/vandalism...

5 Aashik, on 14/09/2010 at 04h08

sorry, voted no. The F.A.Q is better in my opinion

6 Darren1, on 14/09/2010 at 06h07

Voted no, there's a suggestion already open for this ....
=> /suggestions-for-the-support-forum-f28/forumotion-on-wiki-t48981.htm

7 Aashik, on 14/09/2010 at 10h21

Darren1 wrote:Voted no, there's a suggestion already open for this ....
=> /suggestions-for-the-support-forum-f28/forumotion-on-wiki-t48981.htm

aren't they different suggestion mate ?
the link you gave is a suggestion about having forumotion on wikipedia and this suggestion is to have a forum wiki, as wiki.forumotion.com which would contain the forum faq and some tips.

8 Darren1, on 15/09/2010 at 13h24

Both are pretty much useless in my opinion, so their both the same lol.

We also currently have our own T&T, FAQ, Important info & rules sections here, do we not?
Why waste the time doing it to another site?

9 Aashik, on 15/09/2010 at 16h54

Darren1 wrote:Both are pretty much useless in my opinion, so their both the same lol.

, you are right with your second statement. that's why i too voted no Smile

10 Jeremjay24, on 15/09/2010 at 21h04

Well, people could easily make guides without messaging an official and waiting for a response.

11 KingOfSports, on 15/09/2010 at 22h56

Voting no for the reasons mentioned by other users.

12 boffer10, on 15/09/2010 at 23h37

One weakness of the forumotion system is the poor search function. On the forum I admin, I'm watching tons of valuable information getting buried under new posts. We've experimented with a wiki to catalog informational posts, but it is just too time consuming. I voted yes, just to see how the 'pros' would do it!

13 Darren1, on 16/09/2010 at 08h54

Jeremjay24 wrote:Well, people could easily make guides without messaging an official and waiting for a response.

But then it wouldn't be an offical tut, and it could be giving mis leading information .... wich wouldn't be good

14 Wellbe6, on 17/09/2010 at 02h49

i choose yes. nice idea. i'd love forumoton wikis.

15 Jeremjay24, on 19/09/2010 at 15h12

Darren1 wrote:
Jeremjay24 wrote:Well, people could easily make guides without messaging an official and waiting for a response.

But then it wouldn't be an offical tut, and it could be giving mis leading information .... wich wouldn't be good

There are Javascript tools out there that could prevent that.

16 Dumbledore27, on 19/09/2010 at 15h22

Jeremjay24 wrote:
Darren1 wrote:
Jeremjay24 wrote:Well, people could easily make guides without messaging an official and waiting for a response.

But then it wouldn't be an offical tut, and it could be giving mis leading information .... wich wouldn't be good

There are Javascript tools out there that could prevent that.

Could prevent what? Wrong information?
That's like if I said "Jeremy Jay is a female" and I'd get "Jeremjay24 is a male". That's just not possible. You'd have to enter what to be replaced by what or something, meaning you'd have to know what the tut is about, meaning an official can already post it. Confused

17 Yakko!, on 19/09/2010 at 15h38

in the italian support forum we have
http://topicattivo.com

18 Yakko!, on 28/09/2010 at 17h44

19 Destructoino, on 31/10/2010 at 19h03

I prefere the FAQ. No

20 Caihlem, on 27/11/2010 at 23h14

Hell No

The principle of a wiki is that anyone can add modifications and basically publish what he wants... how he wants. In short, it creates extra work, and allows possible trolls to cause "damage".
If members have interesting things to propose, as seen many times over, they can always propose a Tutorial or a Tip to be posted in the dedicated sections