Answering Questions on the Wiki (Proposal)

[amberwolf]

We get lots of the same questions over and over again, which mostly can be answered with the same exact answer, or very close, or which must be answered with a slew of questions because there isn't enough info.

So, for each person that normally answers such things, rather than using your time to answer a specific thread's question like this, in future, I propose that instead you spend your time writing the answer as a Wiki article, in the ES Wiki:
http://endless-sphere.com/w
and then post a link to your article in the thread asking the question, with a recommendation that they first read the article, then come back with specific questions not answered there.


Right now, lots of us could be writng up wiki articles based on various subjects we know, or garnering good info out of really long threads and making a concise article in the wiki about it. But there is not much time to do that after spending sometimes hours each day answering the same old quesitons over and over again.

How about it? Will you donate your time to the wiki and future help of everyone? Or just keep answering the same things over and over again.

[fechter]

Excellent idea.

If you can find where you've answered it before, simply copy/paste into the wiki article.

[amberwolf]

And...my first one:
http://www.endless-sphere.com/w/index.p ... ies_to_all)
(also added sections for switches, contactors, and relays, though I haven't had time to make them yet)

[NeilP]

Funny you should say that.
I put a few very little, but non technical bits there the other day about Controller front end PSU's..only jottings really

http://www.endless-sphere.com/w/index.php/Brushless

[el_walto]

I'd write some sections if my username and password would actually work for the wiki.

Login error
You have not specified a valid username.

[Ypedal]

I'd write some sections if my username and password would actually work for the wiki.

Login error
You have not specified a valid username.

probably the underscore " _ " in you username.. this has come up before with other non A~Z 0~9 characters...

[amberwolf]

Hopefully MRVass will have a fix for that soon.

More wikied answers:
http://www.endless-sphere.com/w/index.p ... leshooting

[NeilP]

As I have found, I started to create a Google doc, that I would have transferred to the wiki, I posted to at least three people plus put up a link on a thread, asking for comments with regard to it..does it make sense, can you understand, etc etc not one response to help me improve it, so it is easy to see why people do not bother to upload stuff i was trying to but got no feedback, so it is difficult

[amberwolf]

I don't recall ever seeing the topic.

Best is just to post the wiki article, as it can be edited easily enough (easier to correct errors than writing it from scratch); commenting can be done right there in the wiki "talk" page, as that is how wikis are designed to be used.

If all discussion about the article has to be done on other sites than the wiki, it makes it harder to have to go to one site (ES Forum) to discuss it, another (GD or ES Wiki) to input it or edit it or read it, another (ES Forum/etc) to research it, etc. If it can all (or most) be done on one place (ES Wiki), it would be easier. It also keeps the revision history of the article all in one place, as sometimes there is very good information left out of the final article that may well be applicable to some other article, or good to create it's own, and that can simply be copied over from that revision history or wiki discussion to another Wiki article.



FWIW: I typically can't access Google docs or vids or whatever, as the latest browser versions that I can use on either of my systems (for various reasons) are too old to be compatible with all their features. Since Google doesn't want to deal with troubleshooting, they just give error messages that I need to upgrade my browser and disable the whole page, preventing even viewing it. Some of their pages, like Gmail, have a "nobrowsercheck" function that lets me at least access the page, even if all the features don't work the basic stuff still does. I doubt most poeple have this problem, but some others probably do.

(I used to have a laptop that I could use newer browsers on, but it has a power connector problem that requires complete disassembly to fix (an all day job), and with two other working computers it is not priority enough to deal with, vs everythign else I have to do.)

[NeilP]

I don't recall ever seeing the topic.

I did not help myself in a way, but what I did, I did for a reason. I sent only to people that did not understand in the first place. My thinking being, that getting someone to try and read it, that already understands will 'fill in the blanks' them selves on what I wrote, where as someone that I am trying to explain to for the first time will have to ask if they do not understand.

AlanB then did a more brief version on the wiki...so I left it at that.
http://www.endless-sphere.com/w/index.p ... less_Motor




https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w8m ... edit?pli=1

[amberwolf]

My thinking being, that getting someone to try and read it, that already understands will 'fill in the blanks' them selves on what I wrote, where as someone that I am trying to explain to for the first time will have to ask if they do not understand.

That is a very good point I hadn't thought of.

[Ricky_nz]

I'd write some sections if my username and password would actually work for the wiki.

Login error
You have not specified a valid username.

probably the underscore " _ " in you username.. this has come up before with other non A~Z 0~9 characters...

Any news on this this I can't login to the wiki yet

[Gregb]

My thinking being, that getting someone to try and read it, that already understands will 'fill in the blanks' them selves on what I wrote, where as someone that I am trying to explain to for the first time will have to ask if they do not understand.

That is a very good point I hadn't thought of.

yes but it wont hurt if someone else who knows the subject, checks your writings for accuracy......