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Lyte
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Hey ya'll,
I thought of starting a Glossary of Computer terms on PC101 but then it occured to me that maybe a WIKI would be more interesting. Ya know... something to which my members can contribute... develop...etc...etc..
What do you think?
Lyte
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seo
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There are already quite a few wiki computer glossary sites. I'm sure that some of them are published under GPL or a Creative Commons license. Just take what they have and start by modifying their content. That's one idea ...
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htmlmaster
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There are some real Wiki addicts out there. Find them, use them.
Most importantly, MAKE CONSTANT CONTENT BACKUPS. You will be spammed.
To help prevent it, I suggest you make people register to edit/post, and make sure you have a CAPTCHA image verification system.
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Lyte
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Hey SEO,
When you say "take what they have" do you mean it's an open source wiki?? I never found one. 
Hey htmlmaster,
Lord, like I don't have enough problems with spamming. Maybe I should hold off on this! lol Or... I wonder... would it be possible to code it/make it in such a way that only members of the regular forum would be able to post on the wiki glossary?
Lyte
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seo
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Lyte wrote: | Hey SEO,
When you say "take what they have" do you mean it's an open source wiki?? I never found one.
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Wikipedia is published under the license GNU Free Documentation License, so you can use its content legally as long as you give credit to Wikipedia. You can also use the following search engine
http://search.yahoo.com/cc
in order to find content published under Creative Commons licenses.
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jadedman
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| They even provide database backups for download. to start your own wiki you would need a LARGE user base. |
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Damnz
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:14 am Post subject: |
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For a start, if you're planning on opening one up, you could either,
1) Go with an open source one, MediaWiki is probably one of the best, heck! Wikipedia themselves are using it.
2)There are many/few, dunno, automatic Wiki installers to their own website, i.e in a form of a subdomain. Can't really remember which, I read about some on TechCrunch.
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dojo
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I never thought about this, but I think it's a good idea. I don't use wikipedia that much, but the system is starting to be widely used and popular. Good idea indeed ... Keep us posted on how it goes. I might try something like this too ...
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seo
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| dojo wrote: | | I never thought about this, but I think it's a good idea. I don't use wikipedia that much, but the system is starting to be widely used and popular. Good idea indeed ... Keep us posted on how it goes. I might try something like this too ... |
My take on this is that this can take even more effort than creating an active forum. People don't start contributing just for fun. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, it's just not the case. I'm not trying to discourage anyone, but wiki is not magic bullet or magic pill.
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seo
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| retsop wrote: | It's a good ideea but You need to get some members to do that 
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Also you can't just write three or four sentences on each page. You need to create a real content. You need to take time and write a good article. It's very time consuming. It's not like that writing becomes so easy because you use Wiki.
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Damnz
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seo you prove a point. But he/she can always pay for content writers and since you're talking about a computer-related wiki, I'm sure lots of people will be cool with writing for some money...
There are many places to put up writing offers, for one try a search for "digitalpoint forum". I wouldn't post the link as it is a competitor... 
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seo
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| Damnz wrote: |
There are many places to put up writing offers, for one try a search for "digitalpoint forum". I wouldn't post the link as it is a competitor... |
Feel free to post a link here. I don't mind that. Besides, it helps everyone.
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