a Cheetah3D Wiki
This idea has come up before, but I think it's worth a new wish.
Purpose of the Wiki: to provide a better structure for tutorials and shared materials/assets, and an on-line manual which could be expanded and improved by the C3D community (leaving Martin free to get on with what he does best: programming).
Where? the best option would be if it could be integrated into this forum, otherwise there's a risk of splitting the community (see the implementation suggestion below).
What could a wiki offer that the forum can't?
- Organising information; ever done a forum search for "DXF" or "UV"? no results. But try searching for "rendering" and you get 500 threads - too many to be useful. Often the topic you're interested in can end up spread over many posts (or even threads), and even when someone is organised enough to distill the subject matter down into a few succinct frames of comic life, it can be hard work finding it. Another example: how many times has someone posted a list of links to useful resources? Shouldn't that be one master list that people can add to?
- Collaboration: forum posts are easy to edit, but you can only edit your own. I'd love to see something that could be started by one person and then improved by others. Think of all the times people have asked about a book on C3D, and then imagine if Martin's very terse (sorry, Martin) manual could be expanded and illustrated with all the best bits of what gets posted on the forum.
- Evolution: thanks to Martin's tireless work, C3D is constantly improving and changing. A wiki structure can be kept up to date as new C3D features are added or changed, and old/deprecated/irrelevant features can be removed (whereas old forum posts just hang around forever).
- Efficiency: come on people, let's all try to save poor Frank having to do everyone's searching for them.
- Accessibility: the wiki could be a more inviting way for new users to get a gentle introduction to C3D; many potential C3D converts risk being turned off if they get stuck at the early stages, and can't find the help they need in the C3D manual.
Implementation: There's a vBulletin plug-in called NuWiki (http://www.nuhit.com) which could be used to add a Wiki section to the existing C3D forum site. It could either be open for anyone to edit, or else Martin could appoint some editors if things get out of hand. Or, if anyone knows of an alternative solution, please post.
A working example of vBulletin + NuWiki is the german 3dmaxforum.
Anyone else think this could be a good idea? If so, please support the wiki wish.:smile:
Also if anyone has examples of well-organised wikis they admire, please post some links. Thanks.
This idea has come up before, but I think it's worth a new wish.
Purpose of the Wiki: to provide a better structure for tutorials and shared materials/assets, and an on-line manual which could be expanded and improved by the C3D community (leaving Martin free to get on with what he does best: programming).
Where? the best option would be if it could be integrated into this forum, otherwise there's a risk of splitting the community (see the implementation suggestion below).
What could a wiki offer that the forum can't?
- Organising information; ever done a forum search for "DXF" or "UV"? no results. But try searching for "rendering" and you get 500 threads - too many to be useful. Often the topic you're interested in can end up spread over many posts (or even threads), and even when someone is organised enough to distill the subject matter down into a few succinct frames of comic life, it can be hard work finding it. Another example: how many times has someone posted a list of links to useful resources? Shouldn't that be one master list that people can add to?
- Collaboration: forum posts are easy to edit, but you can only edit your own. I'd love to see something that could be started by one person and then improved by others. Think of all the times people have asked about a book on C3D, and then imagine if Martin's very terse (sorry, Martin) manual could be expanded and illustrated with all the best bits of what gets posted on the forum.
- Evolution: thanks to Martin's tireless work, C3D is constantly improving and changing. A wiki structure can be kept up to date as new C3D features are added or changed, and old/deprecated/irrelevant features can be removed (whereas old forum posts just hang around forever).
- Efficiency: come on people, let's all try to save poor Frank having to do everyone's searching for them.
- Accessibility: the wiki could be a more inviting way for new users to get a gentle introduction to C3D; many potential C3D converts risk being turned off if they get stuck at the early stages, and can't find the help they need in the C3D manual.
Implementation: There's a vBulletin plug-in called NuWiki (http://www.nuhit.com) which could be used to add a Wiki section to the existing C3D forum site. It could either be open for anyone to edit, or else Martin could appoint some editors if things get out of hand. Or, if anyone knows of an alternative solution, please post.
A working example of vBulletin + NuWiki is the german 3dmaxforum.
Anyone else think this could be a good idea? If so, please support the wiki wish.:smile:
Also if anyone has examples of well-organised wikis they admire, please post some links. Thanks.
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