The Friki

[pauluffel]

Aww M., you were one of the people I was hoping would add their knowledge, but ah well, I"ll just try and explain it further to try and draw other people who are interested. My favourite part about wiki's are that it gives a chance to explain things and elaborate on concepts and subjects that are referenced in the explaination of a subject. If there"s an important concept on a page that I don"t understand, hopefully the author has realized that the concept is important and made it a link (by writing the phrase in CamelCaps, which automatically makes it a link after you click Save Changes.) If the author did not realize that they referenced something unusual, I could edit the page and turn the phrase into a link myself (say by changing gearing ratios to GearingRatios) so the next time the author or anyone else who understood GearingRatios came to the page, they could write up an explaination of GearingRatios and the problem would be solved. Also about navigation and getting lost, you can click the big word at the top of each page to find out what pages link to that word, so you can trace your steps backwards or you can just go to the recent changes page and explore new things that have sprung up since you last visited (like the portal page of ChiefDelphi.)
I"ve added some more stuff to the pages so there is hopefully more to build on and you"ll get a better idea of what it can do (and don"t worry about writing something that a moron will come in and erase, all of the edits are saved so I can go back and restore a page that"s been nuked [like the time the FirstRobotics page was changed to "I LIKE PIE"]).