Create a Wiki?
How about a Wiki? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
"A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content (excluding blocked users), using a simplified markup language.[1][2] Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. "
Here's an example of MediaWiki as implemented by Evergreen Mountain Bike Association... http://evergreenmtb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Notice that it's handled as a distinct site from the main site, but there's plenty of links back to the "parent" site: http://evergreenmtb.org/home/index.php
- Forums:
Upcoming Events
- Intermediate Women's Ride-Sandy Ridge, May 26, 2012 - 2012-05-26 09:45
- Stub trail building - XC/AM - 2012-05-27 08:45
- Stub Freeride area build day [W.T.F.] - 2012-05-27 09:00
- Women's Group Meeting - 2012-05-29 17:00
- General Membership Meeting - 2012-05-29 18:00
And along those
And along those lines...
At the last Oregon Bike Summit, there was talk of a state-wide collaborative website as a "clearinghouse" for all things bike related. But of course, it was being thought of in non-open-source non-grassroots way (i.e. business model/associated with government entity, paid designers, content people, i.e. grant money)...
A wiki is a more powerful tool with less cost of ownership to implement than that kind of "old economy" model. So good fit for a grassroots community organization...
Put a Wiki up! I'll go to town providing content about trail building, technical trail feature construction, boilerplate docs for land manager agreements, risk management, inspection checklists... and so will lots of other local mountain bikers.
Open source, open minds.
Do more, whine less.
Wiki
That is a great idea. I will put it on the list for completion after the marketing team makes their decisions about the branding.
Mark
The Evergreen Site really cool
I can see how the wiki might be really neat. My only concern is how difficult is it to edit? That said I find this pretty annoying at times regarding formating.
"Wiki" is Hawaiian for
"Wiki" is Hawaiian for "easy".
If ya can type an email (with formatting), then ya have the skills to write or update a wiki page. It's designed to be easy. The editor is built into the wiki page (very much like the content editor for this Drupal site - been assuming it's Drupal).
Here's the help for MediaWiki for the fancier formatting... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
There are plugin's for MediaWiki that create interface between Drupal site on the MediaWiki site. ... so registered users on main site have same login to the wiki side of site.
The wiki wouldn't replace the "article" content functionality of main site, but would be the "reference guide" pages - and local mountain bikers and trail builders and event organizers - would have a land spot for all of the tribal knowledge.
I love the idea of a wiki
just to expand on the idea or at least some thoughts of it's implmentaion, check out what peopel in BC have done - http://www.nsmba.bc.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id...
Each trail system has it's own area in the wiki. trail work, location, pictures, events, anything associated can be there and updates of trail days and pictures can be posted. This would be a fantastic way to share what is happening and get people excited about the trails they know, or about trails that they have not visited.
Would also be great to have a trail building area as Joe mentioned as well as possibly local gear review (I am always more interested in hearing from someone I know about gear then reading about it from someone I don't)
I'm sure the possibilities are endless. As the saying goes, content is king. The easier it is to update the content, the more of a resource the website will be :D
cheers,
Will
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