) relating to the updating. Most of us are aware that the Wiki lacks many things that are known quite well at least by one person, and some things in the Wiki are incomplete or inaccurate. I'm wondering if we can create a concerted effort to change these two facts. If this 'project' were to be done, I would think this thread could be used as a common ground to link to a thread where information can be found; ie, 'this thread over here has info about this feature and how to use it, so I'm going to add the info to the Wiki'. That way this thread can be used to easily find the original information. The caveat to this is that this thread would need to be as devoid as possible of 'this is how it's done'/''no, this is how it's done' discussions; I would hope it could be limited to linking to threads where such discussions take place. Another possibility is that, when linking to a thread, the poster of the link could paraphrase the linked discussion (Method A was suggested but does not work, Method B does work but is rather 'hacky', and Method C is a feature added after Method B became widespread). This way, people would be aware of all three methods, the lack of function of Method A, the hackiness of Method B, the subsequent addition of Method C, and the fact that Method C is favorable over Method B.First, before this can even be considered, it would be beneficial to know how much disk space is available for the Wiki, and how much of it should be used (ie, if it's on the same disk as the stuff in the Downloads page, the downloads would probably take precedence, and thus the wiki might have 10GB available, but it would be preferred to stay under 5GB).
Also, being that I'd like this to be a concerted effort, I cannot and will not do it myself. The more working on a project, the less required of each individual, and the less likely each individual is to screw up, misinform the public or do something else they didn't intend to do. If no one else wants to help, I'll add what I know to the Wiki, but that will be the end of it.
I will note that you do not necessarily have to know something to add it to the Wiki; you can search for it on the forums yourself, but remember that I want to limit this thread to linking to and paraphrasing the 'this is how you do it'/'no this is how you do it' discussions. If you do not know yourself how to do something, and you cannot find some resource that at least describes the currently accepted way to do it, do not put it in the Wiki; you may, however, link to and paraphrase the thread in this thread if it has at least one method of doing it, for two reasons,-- a) just in case a way is found or created to do it hackily or officially (ie Methods B and C in my earlier example), it might happen to be posted in that thread that you've linked to; otherwise, you'll have to add a link to and paraphrase a new thread that does discuss the hacky/official method(s) if you can find them,-- and b) so that others will be aware of what methods have been tried/suggested and do or do not work.
If this idea garners a fair amount of support, I will make a list here in this post of the people known to be helping.
Another couple of quick notes: You may want to consider signing content you add to the Wiki, so others will know what you've added; and you may want to link to and describe the thread(s) with the 'this is how you do it'/'no this is how you do it' discussions pertaining to the subject you're editing. These are just suggestions, you do not have to do these things; it would just be a nice idea.
I have 5 gigabytes of space available for everything, and the wiki currently occupies a pretty insignificant portion of that. The largest non-download space-user is the forum with over 100 megabytes of database content.
