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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
It still gets edited once in a while. But the bottom line is that it needs fresh blood and better scope.
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*raises hand for fresh blood*
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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
Documenting every team and every robot is daunting. We already have a source for white papers. Nobody feels like reposting all the technical information.
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Document teams/robots doesn't seem important for FIRSTWiki as far as I see it. You'd probably get more accurate information by contacting someone on a team than relying on source that tries to do the same for ~3000 odd teams. White papers are good, but there are most likely several different papers on how to do the same thing, which having one compiled article on the wiki could accomplish.
The scope right now may be too big. If you try to do 1,000 things at once, you'll probably only get 250 of them done with the 750 rest being undeveloped. It's all about focus. If a certain section needs to be updated, then it should be a goal to update that section only for the month or something.
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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
Ideally, it would be a one-stop-shop of FIRST information; the Hitchhikers Guide to FIRST, if you will. But we only ever had a relatively small number of people working on articles. And when they graduated and drifted away from FIRST (I personally only volunteer at competitions anymore), no one replaced them.
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I think it could be, though the exact goal needs to be redefined. If it's going to be FIRST, write stuff specifically on FIRST. Don't focus on team/robot data.
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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
Technically, it's in need of repairs. MediaWiki needs updates. More extensions are needed. And nobody is around to stop spammers.
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Most of that sounds like a job for the original admin (Max I think it is?).
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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
You could talk to me. I came up with a lot of the templates and organization used.
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Might contact you later, got a few ideas or two.
-Tanner