Team Self-Updating scout database?

[keehun]

Hello everyone,

Coming from the varsity policy debate world, I have an interesting question to ask. As policy debaters, our "tool of offense" is our negative strategy and our Affirmative (A Plan which aims to resolve the year's topic, called the resolution). This wiki is a crucial part of the varsity field. Each team updates their own page on the wiki. They never delete anything and they openly provide teams with what their plan does (actually, this is almost all the citation of the evidence that they are reading off very fast) In the debate culture, if any seasoned varsity debater talks about "the debate wiki" they know where to go. Why is this not a common thing for Robotics? We would have a very fitting use. It appears to me that we have to "scout" other teams for basic info like drive train and how it looks like and such.

Is this that some teams have felt? (Meaning, lack of freely available information for some team?) Is there just not a single place to consolidate this data?

I realize on-site scouting for strategy is important and should stay important but what is your opinion on a culture of FIRST where we don't have to scourge the web just to see what a certain robot looks like?

Maybe I am totally being unreasonable, and if so, I understand. I just had an epiphany because as a debater, if I wanted to see which affirmative I would have to negate, it was on the web at that single site.

So, what do you think?