could always setup a wiki
:o
Did anyone else hear that whooshing sound :oops:
How about rather then just one post with all the links,
create another sub cat under astronomy called Useful documents & links that is locked.
and then just move/copy all the useful links that appear into that.
Mac.
Problem is to create an article you either need to be a registered user (not too sure how hard that is might be as simple as just registering)
or get them to create the document themselves and then edit it.
worth a look though.
Mac
That was the intention
It's a nice idea and I hate to be a wet blanket, but as time passes links may change or die completely. If not checked now and again we might end up with a list of links many of which don't work. Checking this list could become quite a job.
Better to find that a link's broke by looking at one post than to spend hours finding the original post
Or to not find it at all due to your search parameters being slightly off.
That's true.
Quote from: PhilB on Jan 20, 2011, 17:20:09Checking this list could become quite a job.
Nothing new there. Links die for all sorts of reasons. I was rather hoping that instead of just posting a link, folks would take a little time to write a short paragraph about the thing they're linking to. That way, if the link dies, there's a vague hint as to what it was about, and that might help in re-discovering it if it's merely moved...
In this day and age, as web space storage is very cheep is it not worth
saving the web pages them selves, or even just printing them as pdf's
then hosting the pdf's ourselves,
again this comes down to fair usage, with regard to copyright.
Mac.
You mean one single post with sections that we all update?
Quote from: RobertM on Jan 20, 2011, 19:19:49
You mean one single post with sections that we all update?
I think it'd be better to make a reply in the "Links to useful reference documents" thread in which you give a brief description of the document and a link to it, rather than a link to the thread in which it was mentioned...
Could always have that on a Wiki
Quote from: Rocket Pooch on Jan 21, 2011, 12:03:21
Could always have that on a Wiki
Yeah, but we've got a forum and we don't have a wiki, and the forum's easy to use, and a wiki would be a whole lot more work...
I can setup a wiki, anyone interested?
Yea why not,
I think once its been set up. most of us would probably assist.
Mac.
Off you go Mac
http://www.gumbo-uk.com/AstroWiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
You don't let the grass grow, do you, Chris :cheesy:
Well, its kinda simple to do, but seriously if people here want to edit that feel free, if you need the menu changing we can sort that out as well, it would stop having stickies all over the place.
Chris
me thinks you already had this and was just waiting for someone to say yes.
So whats the first page going to be.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali Nominations. ;)
Mac
Not Mac, the hosting provider I use has simple scripts for setup, takes about 20sec to set something like that up.
Chris
I think it's a great idea, a place to collect the wisdom of the OAS. Forums are for discussion, but this forum get's used a lot as a reference library. The results/conclusions of appropriate discusions would sit well in a wiki structure.
Also a great place for write ups of projects as well as How To's. I am just about to make a parallelogram mount and would be happy to document it on the AstroWiki rather than a forum post.
Duncan