Re: Suggestions for a reference document

[Rocket Pooch]

could always setup a wiki

[mickw]

 

Did anyone else hear that whooshing sound 

[Mac]

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.

[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

[mickw]

That was the intention

[PhilB]

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.

[mickw]

Better to find that a link's broke by looking at one post than to spend hours finding the original post

[PhilB]

Or to not find it at all due to your search parameters being slightly off.

That's true.

[Rick]

Checking 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...

[Mac]

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.

[RobertM]

You mean one single post with sections that we all update?

[Rick]

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...

[Rocket Pooch]

Could always have that on a Wiki

[Rick]

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...

[Rocket Pooch]

I can setup a wiki, anyone interested?