There is a big difference between a wiki and a user-editable website. A wiki enables simple and consistent markup, indexes certain pieces of information, provides cross-links, and allows ready re-organisation when necessary. The massmind website has lots of information, but the structure isn't conducive to organisation or consistency. I haven't looked deeply into the accuracy of the content; it just too painful. It's hard to read and track.
Sorry to be honest, but that's the way I see it.
Donald.
----- "jamesmichaelnewton" <
jamesmichaelnewton@...> wrote:
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, John McCormick <mcjonster@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ya I agree no offense but that massmind website is terrible.
> >
> > There's a million poorly placed ads on it and is f-ugly...
>
> Seriously? It's more important to you that the site be pretty than
> that it have relevant content? wow... whatever...
>
>
> > Google Sites has free wiki templates and hosting:
> http://sites.google.com/site/projectwikitemplate_en/
> >
> > It would take 15 minutes to recreate all the info on massmind
> without the ads and have a true wiki style webpage faq.
>
> The reason why that site has ads is that the ads pay for someone to
> maintain it. That's why it exists. There are very few saints in the
> engineering world. It makes just enough from those ads to pay my
> hosting bill and for the time I spend maintaining it.
>
>
> > I would volunteer to just cut and paste info into a google webpage
> but I'm not an expert by any means.
>
>
> And yet you feel qualified to slam my efforts. Thanks.
>
>
> > --- On Thu, 5/13/10, Piers Goodhew <piers@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Piers Goodhew <piers@...>
> > Subject: Re: The FAQ, and maybe why there isn't one. Was Re:
> [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Best Way to Cut PCB
> > To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 3:34 AM
> >
> >
> > I did look at the massmind site earlier. It didn't seem to have a
> lot of
> > wiki things that I'm used to like auto links, tables of contents,
> nice clean
> > syntax to easily autoformat posts, but I guess I should look again.
>
> Nope, your right, it's a pile of shit. Just read above. But it's a
> pile of shit that works and has most of the /content/ and actual
> information that are important on it. To post something you would have
> to actually type or paste in your text, copy in the URL you wanted to
> reference (if there is one) and then depend on a human page editor
> (me) to link things and edit the page if it needed it. The horror!
>
> If you wanted to be a page editor, you would actually have to learn
> HTML. REAL HTML! That arcane "programming language" that people must
> go to school for years to understand. Instead of auto linking random
> words, you would actually have to type <a href="lcds.htm">lcd</a> so
> don't bother, start a wiki yourself instead.
>
>
> > The main reason I haven't volunteered for such a job is that I think
> you
> > need to be prepared to put in at least a year (half a year) actually
> doing
> > it, and I try not to make commitments I'm not certain i can keep.
>
> Yeah, I wonder why I bother.
>
> In fact, I doubt I will anymore.
>
> --
> James.
>
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