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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 15785" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Make a Wiki?No I am not thinking of some canned solution... Just a forum architecture to organize questions and answers together into threads with say a small handful of sub fora to organize beginner type questions separately from serious pro level stuff. FAQ for installers is likely to involve different questions, than varsity or Jr forums.&nbsp; ======While there is surely enough talent here to write a lot of articles, it isn&#039;t going to happen just because the community would like it to (IMO). A question and answer format, is already the natural ebb and flow of how people who know the answers generally share them with web communities gratis. I only suggest organizing these questions into specific sub forums so they can grow to some day be fully fleshed out FAQ full of answers,,, but to start will be more open questions than answers. The organization is to reduce the irritating repeated questions..since one would hopefully search the FAQ sub forum before posting a new question there.In my judgement the problem with some grander plan, is getting enough people willing to do all the work involved. While answering individual questions is less painful, and can include links to more detailed articles. or not...&nbsp; Build a wiki if you want. I just offer that it has been tried before in this same general community and didn&#039;t reach critical mass last time. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 15785, member: 126"] Re: Make a Wiki? No I am not thinking of some canned solution... Just a forum architecture to organize questions and answers together into threads with say a small handful of sub fora to organize beginner type questions separately from serious pro level stuff. FAQ for installers is likely to involve different questions, than varsity or Jr forums. ====== While there is surely enough talent here to write a lot of articles, it isn't going to happen just because the community would like it to (IMO). A question and answer format, is already the natural ebb and flow of how people who know the answers generally share them with web communities gratis. I only suggest organizing these questions into specific sub forums so they can grow to some day be fully fleshed out FAQ full of answers,,, but to start will be more open questions than answers. The organization is to reduce the irritating repeated questions..since one would hopefully search the FAQ sub forum before posting a new question there. In my judgement the problem with some grander plan, is getting enough people willing to do all the work involved. While answering individual questions is less painful, and can include links to more detailed articles. or not... Build a wiki if you want. I just offer that it has been tried before in this same general community and didn't reach critical mass last time. JR [/QUOTE]

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