Following a link given in another post today I started to read the German Language Pedelec forum, using the Google page translator I hasten to add. In fact I got so enthusiastic I registered so I could try asking questions. But now I find that its url is unreachable from here. Even pictures from the German forum which have been linked so as to display on this UK forum site don't show. Has the site crashed, or have they blocked me? Is anyone else able to reach the forum?
It is a pity I can no longer see it, since I noticed that had a wiki, and I was studying how they use it, and wondering whether such a thing could be of use to this forum's community.
One of the problems I find with the discussions here is that it is often tricky to get a quick good overview of a topic. I have seen that there are things already being done here to help people locate important material:
While I was able to access the German wiki I could see they did not actually use their wiki as a place to synthesise and publish articles like wikipedia. Instead they appeared to be using it more as a commented collection of links to posts in the main forum which gave good answers to FAQs. It appeared more of a navigation tool than a place to create articles.
This UK forum is obviously a place for discussion. But is any one here at all interested in making use of a wiki in some way, maybe on the German model as an index to posts if not a place to co-operatively produce articles?
It is a pity I can no longer see it, since I noticed that had a wiki, and I was studying how they use it, and wondering whether such a thing could be of use to this forum's community.
One of the problems I find with the discussions here is that it is often tricky to get a quick good overview of a topic. I have seen that there are things already being done here to help people locate important material:
- We have a FAQ section of the forum here, but it is limited in content and I tend find not very so much useful in it. So like many I land up asking questions in this section of the forum.
- Flecc for example has a list of useful posts and links which he uses to post answers to peoples' questions, and of course many others do likewise. So that is what is good about this place - by asking one quickly gets a lot of food for thought.
While I was able to access the German wiki I could see they did not actually use their wiki as a place to synthesise and publish articles like wikipedia. Instead they appeared to be using it more as a commented collection of links to posts in the main forum which gave good answers to FAQs. It appeared more of a navigation tool than a place to create articles.
This UK forum is obviously a place for discussion. But is any one here at all interested in making use of a wiki in some way, maybe on the German model as an index to posts if not a place to co-operatively produce articles?
