Nigel and all
Do not fear, your content on RF Developments was not deleted. To
paraphrase, the rumours of its demise are greatly exagerated !. Rather, it
was repositioned on its own page, as it should be, slightly "wikified" and
added to the Category of Instrumentation manufacturers. The Manufacturers
category on the main page has some text which links to the Instrumentation
manufacturers category, and the main page also has its own Instrumentation
manufacturers link.
As I tried to educate everyone previously when the wiki was first
announced, Categories are really not for content. Content belongs in
Articles, and you can then assign the article to a Category (or to several
categories).
Maybe other instrumentation manufacturers, or their local representatives,
might like to add an Article about each brand they stock, and a bit about
their own business (each in separate articles please !).
Both Gus Stewart (who hosts the site) and myself monitor content changes
via an RSS feed Basically every change is noticed by us. If we see
something in the wrong place, we'll move to correctly place it and
categorise it, rather than letting the wiki grow completely wild. With a
bit of basic pruning and grooming, hopefully the overall structure will be
fairly logical.
As far as anonymous editing goes, I probably think we should require users
to register and login to be able to edit. The gliding community is fairly
small and close-knit, and it make some sense to know who is editing what,
so that any discussion on article positioning, etc can be directed to the
appropriate user. Longer term, we may be able to switch that off -
Wikipedia is a large target for vandals, simply be cause it is such a well
known site. Hopefully hackers don't consider the gliding community and
WikiGlide to be worth bothering with. Wikipedia now requires logins for
all people starting articles, after a couple of high profile acts of vandalism.
Gus might like to look at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Require_users_log_in_to_edit
and enable the requirement to have users login before they can edit.
Cheers
Jason Armistead
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