golfgti forum engine wiki

[Mikester]

Would this be a golfgtiforum affliate? Just im thinking of the excesive cost JV already has. lol.

Not sure if he would want to basically host another forum. lol.

Who would be doing it etc?

[Diamond Hell]

It's not a forum, it's a wiki, which works just like that Wikipedia.

That would be open source and unless we ram it with high-resolution images it shouldn't monster bandwidth.

It should be available as an install option in cPanel in any Linux hosting package that has Fantastico scripts included in it.

Simples.

[Horney]

I think this is a brilliant idea. The wiki on the corrado forum is really useful and it's not even a very good one!

Nick

[topher]

bandwidth shouldn't really be an issue (it was cpu load causing previous issues - too many queries per second).. anyone have experience setting up wiki?

[Diamond Hell]

Maybe.

[jv]

Could do an install of perhaps mediawiki but it's not so much the server overhead as the time to admin it.

I have serious doubts about an openly editable GTI wiki actually amounting to anything other than endless edits over the usual GTI arguments!

[Diamond Hell]

It's a place for fact, not opinion.  So long as people appreciate that then it'll be fine.

[Jay]

Piss easy to set-up mediawiki, I set one up earlier this year for my work. Took me all of a day including researching which wiki to use and many a ciggie break 

I think maybe restricting the accounts to people who have X amount of posts on the forum or given to knowledgable members, so other less knowledgable people can't screw with the correct info. I know it's not the way Wiki's are meant to be, but in our case it's probably best.

[jamie16v]

Piss easy to set-up mediawiki, I set one up earlier this year for my work. Took me all of a day including researching which wiki to use and many a ciggie break 

I think maybe restricting the accounts to people who have X amount of posts on the forum or given to knowledgable members, so other less knowledgable people can't screw with the correct info. I know it's not the way Wiki's are meant to be, but in our case it's probably best.

or at least be able to have others correct it, thats how it is on other forums.

[jv]

Why make a separate wiki though? Why not just use the original? Gains: Global audience, way easier for people to find, admin overhead removed. Just not clear on the actual point of attaching a new wiki.