Ducati Monster Forum

Would it be possible to start a Wiki for monsters or even ducatis in general?  It may not be helpful for everyone but we could start a very serious knowledge base for these bikes that would be a fantastic source for information. 

What I mean by possible is interest, and support from this crew.  Since we're trying to populate this new board with information why not do it in a way that organizes the information in the form of a wiki.

As a replacement/substitute for the FAQ?

Wiki's are all the rage now Steve!

Some of them are crappy while others if nicely done can be very handy to have... I'm all for a separate Wiki of archived tech

If it was kept fairly clean, and incorporated how-tos well in addition to just tech and general information, it could be nice. 

The big questions are where to host it and who is going to maintain it.  Which could be killers at this point.  I'd be willing to help however I can, within reason. 

I agree, it could be a good idea. I'm just wondering how we prevent the Colbert effect.

By that are you referring to the ability of anyone to edit it and enter incorrect or inaccurate information?  I would think it could be a non-open wiki if that's what you mean, so that it could be submitted, reviewed and then posted.  I agree that seems like a lot of overhead though.  The other nice thing about the FAQs and HOWTOs being in threads is that people can post related information, alternate or better methods, tips from their experiences, related info on similar models, etc...

Too bad we can't just archive the info in the useful threads at TOB, I presume that would not be legal.

Hmm I think the MonsterWiki would be a great addtion to the DMF!  Instead of recreating all the FAQs here we should work towards that.

Also, it looks like youtube is the way to go for a lot of the howto's now... in the faq's thread... awesome!

I like Wikia.com for making your own wiki's

It's pretty easy to use

Starting a Wiki now is the only way to accomplish this, as over the many years this forum will grow and at some point the information will be too overwhelming to catalog in an intuitive manner. Most of the FAQs came from threads, with other related and non related info within. Those threads should stay intact, in their respected areas, then a mod...or Wiki team gets a suggestion to clip out the useful...accurate info to organize in the Wiki.
While this idea may make info redundant, it will make searching for relevant information easier as time goes on. I agree the wiki should be closed, however, members should be allowed to edit info as they see fit pending approval from a wiki-moderator. I for one am not an authority on all aspects of mechanics, so the wiki-mods would have to collaborate with members to decipher what is fact and what is opinion, and possible post both with that caveat. Members should also be able to edit the tags in which a wiki topic is described. How i search for something, Amy not be the same words or phrase someone else does. Editing the tags by all members will not disrupt the information, but will make for a more robust search engine.

I will be happy to help with this project, but i haven't the faintest idea on how to start a wiki-cycle bible. Perhaps my efforts could be used to update and enter info once a repository has been established.

RB

What name do you like better?

MonsterWiki.com
or
WikiMonster.com

I like MonsterWiki FWIW.

That's what I was thinking...

I concur.   

Well the domain is taken already for MonsterWiki at .com and .org but .net is available...

Also DucatiWiki.org is available.

*EDIT*
Someone has snatched up almost everything for WikiMonster

Would it be wrong to do DucatiWiki.org and include all Ducatis, rather than just monsters?  Or how about Ducatimonsterwiki.com?

monster.wikia.com is available on wikia.com right now


ducati.wikia.com is taken but they've only posted 1 article on it  ::)

I like the  MonsterWiki.net option.

Well, if we can host the wiki and maintain it, we should do that.  If not let's use wikia to host it.

I have a host, and would like to "give back" by setting this up domain and hosting wise.

If everyone is open to it that is...

Do you want to edit the first post with a poll and options for what the domain should be?

Right now you have:

DucatiWiki.org
MonsterWiki.net
DucatiMonsterWiki (all domains)

*EDIT*
Also note that DucatiWiki.com and .net are just place holders that were purchased in 2006 and no one has done anything with... I'm not sure who bought them but there's nothing there but GoDaddy's place holder, here's the WhoIS info: http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsRegData.aspx?k=Bc2dm4Y1WlA29lagTkjfCA==&domain=ducatiwiki.com&prog_id=godaddy

I'm trying to modify the first post but I can't seem to add a poll. 

Edit**   I just created a poll in a separate post.

There are two threads going on this subject.

The owner of ducatiwiki.net, Aldon Caron, is open to letting the Monster fanatics add to his existing wiki, which is currently aimed at the ST family, but has been set up to include 851 and 888 information (if I can get around to adding some stuff in that category).

He also mentioned that he was looking at letting the Multistrada guys add their stuff as well.

This is a great opportunity to create one unified Ducati wiki that would be truly useful to all Ducati riders, rather than having a bunch of separate ones for each model.

We need to seriously consider joining forces here.

Yeah we tried to add a poll to this one first but couldnt get it to so we started another one to have the poll...

I tend to agree with you Scott, one unified Ducati Wiki would be the best thing for the whole community as long as we could work it out with Mr. Caron.