I was doing some unrelated research into how the forums work and I discovered we have the ability to make Wiki posts. Only users with a trust level of 3 (so the regulars) have the power to create Wiki posts, but once created they can be edited by anyone with a trust level of 1 (which is almost everyone).
Wiki posts seem like a great resource that maybe we should use more!
Feel free to edit this post if I’ve missed anything
You can make a post a wiki post by clicking the wrench at the bottom and choosing the make wiki option.
This seems like a better long term option than the cobbled together github wiki.
Github’s main drawbacks being:
it’s a separate wiki per repository. Current Projects don’t necessarily line up/overlap exactly to needed wiki topics. difficult to navigate for new users.
no media hosting for picts etc. we’ve already lost linked pictures because of this.
I suggest creating a new topic category “Wiki - FAQs - Information Repository” and perhaps tightening the permissions beyond ‘newbs can edit’ (at least until populated) and moving the Github wiki.
My only major concern would be that we really want a format that allows a more traditional central homepage/table of contents and I don’t know enough about a Discourse wiki to know if we can break out of the ‘topic+thread’ format.
IMHO, the ideal wiki would read like a typical “owners manual” is organized, just with more ’ these are unexplored directions’ and ‘use specific’ type rabbit holes.
I spotted that option a few times but it wasn’t clear to me how to use it, and i’m still a bit puzzled about it. Sometimes it’s there other times it’s not…
