[GreenKeys] Borderline OT - greenkeys wiki?

Thu Apr 18 17:36:19 EDT 2013

Not familiar with the modern day wiki’s, but you probably won’t have to do any coding.

Another option is wordpress.

Give them the ability to add their own articles, you assign the category to where it needs to go and you publish it so that you can control it (two simple key clicks)

Then anybody could enter ura-17 or whatever in the search box and immediately pull up all of the articles.

That was what I hoped to do on this site, but so far I haven’t found a way to get people to want to use it.

http://keepamericaatwork.com/ham_trader/

I’m pretty well stretched to the limit right now with trying to go to college, keeping Keep America At Work going and trying to figure out how to make a living since I can’t find work no more, but I would be willing to help you get the wordpress thing going if you choose to go that way.

Virgil

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From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of gil at baudot.net
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:24 PM
To: aaa-greenkeys
Subject: [GreenKeys] Borderline OT - greenkeys wiki?

Hey folks:

What I would really like to do is to turn baudot.net into a wiki, so that anyone can add stuff (with moderation) and it can become a community information resource.  Let all you folks add pictures of your machines, stories of your career, schematics, info, links to good sites, whatever...  Categorized and searchable.  Maybe extract info from prior greenkeys posts and pull it together in a sensible fashion.  I already pay for the hosting, and wish the site could be more useful, but I just don't have time to keep up with it all that frequently -- so let the users do the updates!

To do that I need to find some energetic youngster who likes coding all that frickin' web/wiki stuff.  I code in C all day, and do a bit of html when I have to, but just don't have time to keep up with the ever-changing web-coding world.  

I may check with a local college and see if some student wants a service-project-for-credit that they can do, but maybe someone here is interested.

Greenkeys is an invaluable resource, but so much good info is kinda locked away;  it is very much an "ask a question today for a current project" sort of thing, but many of today's questions have been answered in great detail in the past, and many of the folks who answered them are no longer with us to answer today's questions.  Many topics change and threads of thought morph into something totally different, hiding some nuggets of wisdom.  Many times the subject line is completely unrelated and the topic changes.  You can peruse the archives and search with some tools, but a lot of great stuff is buried under different subjects and so on.  

I always thought it would be nice to pull out all the info related to "lubrication" or "selector-magnets" or "model-xx" or whathaveyou and have it show up in a easily-clickable, nicely-formatted fashion, but the "wiki" part of it all would allow us all to build something new, a site with a nice table-of-contents and index and lots of pictures and drawings and ever-improving content  -- someone could add a whole greenkeys post (or maybe just select a part of it), and categorize it with a few checkboxes defining search keywords (eg: M15, mainshaft, clutch) -- and have this flow into a definitive community-driven knowledge-base on this great old equipment.  So over time, not only would recent stuff be added, but as folks are searching archives and browsing sites and learning something useful about xzy, they can, with a few clicks, add it to a great online resource so that it is easily found by others.  Just a dream I suppose, but it has application to many areas, and will take some motivated web coders to make it happen.

maybe just a dream,

gil

gil smith
greenkeys moderator
gil at baudot.net
www.baudot.net
Vaux Electronics: 480-354-5556

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