Thread: Plastic Sources

My Lego's are NOT getting sacrificed... I'd burn the truck before sacrificing my Lego's!

Originally Posted by thekl0wn

Not sure what anyone else thinks, but IMO there is a HUGE gap in the main page of the wiki: Fabrication. And IMO, there should be a wiki for general fabrication, and a wiki for the sub-types of fabricating for the different material types: Metal, plastic, fiberglass, wood, etc...

But those are just my thoughts.

http://www.mp3car.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Added those sections to the Wiki.
We can add whichever sections we would like - so long as you are logged into the forums, you can edit and add to the Wiki.

Nice! I'll dig up my F/G tutorial I made for another forum, since it should lend itself quite nicely to the wiki format. Not that it has anything to do with the OT...

that is great - add anything you like - the wiki is pretty easy to edit - we are in need of a lot of additional sections ...

Originally Posted by Heather

that is great - add anything you like - the wiki is pretty easy to edit - we are in need of a lot of additional sections ...

Heather, I have some material I'd like to add. Is there a standard format that's preferred? Do you have a style guide or anything we can use?

I can edit and combine the nine posts (starting here) that cover a guide to metalworking tools, or I can just add links to the posts. Any preference?

It seems the wiki was created without any style guide. I am looking into this right now..and any suggestions/help on this would be much appreciated, i am sure that there are tons of forum members who know how to organize a wiki better than i. Discussion is here.

For now - i would say that a wiki article should basically be all of the information from your post as it is very informative, and you can put double square brackets around topics you think should have their own article page. And then link to forum posts as needed. Sometimes forum posts have extra stuff that can be skimmed out.

This will duplicate content, but i think in this case it is a good thing for two reasons, some people will prefer reading the wiki rather than posts and also, it will increase our google rankings...maybe and bring more people to the forums.

thanks

I just tried to add the metalworking tools information, but it appears that the wiki doesn't use the HTML tools that the forums use. That makes it pretty hard to put in much information with lots of links -- and I like to use lots of links and pictures.

The default font used in the wiki is pretty hard to read, especially when compared to the forums. And it just isn't as nice looking as the forums. That brings up an interesting question: does the provider of the forum software also have a wiki package?

i was expecting this feedback - I am going to have OpticalFX look into new Wiki plugins for vB...any other comments would be helpful in choosing a new plugin. It also does not make it possible to track changes and easily reference information.

It will not take long to identify and put up a new Wiki - hopefully have a good one up next week.

Originally Posted by rdholtz

I just tried to add the metalworking tools information, but it appears that the wiki doesn't use the HTML tools that the forums use. That makes it pretty hard to put in much information with lots of links -- and I like to use lots of links and pictures.

The default font used in the wiki is pretty hard to read, especially when compared to the forums. And it just isn't as nice looking as the forums. That brings up an interesting question: does the provider of the forum software also have a wiki package?

The wiki does use BBCode which does take a few articles to get use to: Here is an article that has some effort applied to it:
http://www.mp3car.com/wiki/index.php/RoadRunner

Our current wiki is based on media wiki. a help wiki on mediawiki can be found here.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents