Yea, the main difference between a forum and a wiki is that anyone can edit a wiki page, it’s not just a thread (although they are the first post in a thread itself).
Going to dig through options to see if there’s a way to stop posting to a thread if it’s a Wiki article. I have added a tag, #wiki, as well as a category. I’ve also made comments to a wiki post moderated, so we can keep the clutter down.
It stops interesting articles and info from getting lost.
On Facebook, which has little search and no historical info, we created a wiki for all the useful tips about (e.g.) a particular boat.
See https://www.notion.so/antares11/6e93d43ec4ac4837a6f0b09681e4337e?v=cc7b3ab166444df7b78d098e307c2502
for a view of how it all works.
Bill,
You would probably just puke and pass out with your face in the puddle of gastric ejection.
Btw: “modeling” is spelled with one L in the Western Hemisphere not two. Oh, and ostrich racing on asphalt or concrete surfaces was banned here years ago.
So the wiki problem is that who edits and controls the posts.
many wiki articles are crap, unsubstantiated opinions.
the idea of sharing the “best” ideas and not let them go afoul is great.
I would suggest a “panel” of people who approve the submissions. Rotate these people every so often. Maybe 3 or 4 people?
That may be your experience, but mine is that the articles in the wikis I know are factual and helpful.
Frank if I may, This Wiki is what our members post in the regular forums. Their view on what they found or what worked (S) for them. On that you have to isolate the area they live in on some findings as weather plays a huge part in our methods. So what works great for someone in Alaska may not work so well for a member in Australia.
These posted findings can be grouped under appropriate subject headings in the Wiki and be easier to find. All the related info from the members on a given subject all together to make it easier to view all of the posted opinions, thoughts, and ideas with kind of a one stop shop kind of feel.
So if we took your blanket opinion of many are crap and unsubstantiated opinion, we the forum members lose out on valuable knowledge that has been garnered over the last 25 years, and floating in cyberspace until someone uses the right key word to find all that is out there.
There is an easy solution to bypass all the crap and unsubstantiated opinions and that would be to simply not use the Wiki that is available at no cost. Of course Y(our) M(ilage) M(ay) V(ary) J(ust) M(y) H(umble) O(pinion) 
Is this the wrong time to ask for that pony Ward Cunningham always wanted?
BTW: this is ALL BILL’s FAULT
Correct and correct !
I was told it cannot be done and will not work many times while building something. However my factual truth has pretty much sustained for 15yrs.
What about the other 50?
i frequently use wiki informations.
my opinion is, that most information seems to be factual - with one exception: everything, that has to do with ideology and/or politics.
but that should not be astonishing, because all politics are emotional crap.
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Odd, safari doesn’t “see” the iceverything link above here for me. Guess it doesn’t like my iPhone or something!
So who is going to be the first to start an actual Wiki article?
Well, my thread on adding a Revo to a Gen-2 Bachmann 2-6-0 is probably worth keeping where it can be found?
Edit: so I copied it over to the Wiki. Explain to me again what is the advantage compared to being able to find it in the Forum?
Bob,
That is a very easy answer for me!
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BILL HINES
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Peter, I’d like to try an edit on your page. I’ve noticed that Wikipedia sites have reference page links and a link to an official web page. May I have link to the original post on LSC and if your railway has a webpage, that too?
Edit… but how does one access the wiki?
Bill, the Wiki is now a category, like Modelling. On the home page, it is top of the list.
The post is in the Electronics/Power& Sound forum:
I have no webpage, nor a railroad. Old enough to live in a condo, but I have running rights on other layouts.
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Wait, how old do you have to be to live in a condo cause I’m 55 and AARP wants me in bad. However I need to make sure I’m of age cause I wanna be legal and all so right now I’m just living in a victorian townhouse.
BTW …“you” are more than welcome to have running rights on my layout as well but it might take you about 45minutes for your prototypical models to make it around.
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I appreciate Peter placing the first wiki and allowing us to have something to refer and add to.
I am having trouble on the Wiki page itself, and I’m not sure that it’s not Bill’s Fault 
I can only reply to the Peter’s wiki; there is no edit option. Reading the original posts, It seems to me that if we can reply to a wiki on the wiki page, we haven’t created a wiki, we have created another discussion thread.
If I have the wiki concept correct, Peter’s original post should remain as a separate thread, so we can comment and ask Peter questions. Then in keeping with the Wiki concept, Peter’s wiki post needs:
- the ability to be edited by anyone, who might have something to add to Peter’s Wiki.
- avoid the option to reply to a wiki other than by editing it. (If that is correct the bottom of the wiki page should also be an edit button rather than a reply button).
- to provide link to Peter’s original post, to allow anyone to see how his project to evolved in Peter’s own words…
This would approach provides 2 important things.
Peter’s original post is preserved unadulterated and in the format he created it as a thread, complete with comments and replies. Peter’s original work is not diminished, and the Wiki page Peter created can evolve over time as members add to the knowledge base.
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