I read a Time magazine article on the Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia which allows anyone to edit the entries. Pretty cool website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (by the way, Dan, you are listed in the Triathlon entry as one of the “important” males but someone needs to fill in the bio information!)
Uses “wiki wiki” software, open source, simple programming which some corporations are now using for simple document collaboration, project management, etc. Anyway, I think the Slowtwitch community could do a great job at creating a WikiWiki document or two – maybe a Slowtwitch Newbie Guide, or Triathlon Manual, or at least a Slowtwitch Forum User Guide (with a big section on how to post pics)… oh and don’t forget a Slowtwitch Hottie Guide Highlights Book.
How bout it Dan? (note that I am not a computer wonk).
Cool! In the IT world we rely on Wiki quite a bit and I have set up and used quite a few… I would be glad to give you some advice should you need it. Feel free to shoot me an email if you like.
wikipedia is cool, but remember, it’s all based on someone else’s input, it may not always be correct
I was reading a WWII entry recently and edited the peice because an incorrect rank was entered.
I think you just pointed out the biggest strength of the Wiki way!
i don’t know, what about a sort of parallel universe world where there is the regular slowtwitch.com knowledge base–article i and others write–as well as a wiki-based knowledge-based adjunct, edited by slowtwitchers? i think i’d certainly be up for that.
Certainly… I think the combined experience of the group would result in a pretty high quality set of information representing alternatives, pros and cons, differing opinions etc. There are also some pages that you would likely lock from public edit (e.g., rules that you want to set, instructions on how to format based on the wiki engine that you choose etc).
Maybe you could set up a beta site as sort of a sandbox as a starting point and some of us could QA it in order to get it running smoothly.