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Re: Legowiki
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 12 Jun 2005 03:56:44 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote:
> I am thinking of starting LegoWiki, to be about Lego the company, Lego the
> brick, and Lego the community.
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> A Wiki is a collaboratively created and edited site, where the content is
> released under a free license, such as the GNU Free Document License or one of
> the Creative Commons Licenses.
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> The purpose of this site would be to provide a place for new and veteran fans of
> Lego to share information, ideas, links, methodologies, or any information. It
> would serve as a sort of "electronic warehouse" of Lego knowledge.
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> Technically speaking, no problem. I have experience running and maintaining
> MediaWiki (The software behind Wikipedia) and many other wikis. I have a host to
> put it on and a few people able to server as site maintainers.
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> Any ideas, comments, suggestions, or critiques on this? Would any you be willing
> to create content for the site or be interested in seeing one created?
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> Thanks,
> Venkatesh Srinivas
> me@endeavour.zapto.org
OK, I have a question.... what will a Legowiki provide us that we don't already
have in Lugnet, Peeron, Bricklink and Brickshelf? I am not sure that we need
another reference guide. Of course I am speaking with bias here cuz I'm coming
out with a Lego set/part history CD. But since I am not familiar with the
concept of a "Wiki", perhaps I am ignorant about what its value would be to the
Lego community. Rather than come out with another reference site, perhaps we
should look at the ones we have and ask how to make them better. Also, I would
be nervious about having a reference site that allows everyones input. And I
don't mean a "forum" but an unsecured reference site.
As has been mentioned here before, the de-centralization of Lego fan sites has
been going on the past few years. I would rather have fewer better ones. I
also have a strong prejudice towards Lugnet, and would like to see it get back
its' former dominance among Lego websites.
Just my (biased) 2 cents,
Gary Istok
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| (...) Encyclopedic reference. No other site is like that. FAQs can come close if you're lucky but they don't have the cross linking, usually, as they are too much for one person to maintain. (...) If you don't know what a Wiki is, you may not be (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hi, Gary, Two answers for this: 1. What is a Wiki? A Wiki is a kind of "web in a box". The people who provide content can easily create and edit pages with information, and can equally edit links between these. Think of it as an encyclopedia, (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| I am thinking of starting LegoWiki, to be about Lego the company, Lego the brick, and Lego the community. A Wiki is a collaboratively created and edited site, where the content is released under a free license, such as the GNU Free Document License (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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