Club Arnage

Comments please on this proposal for re-build of Club Arnage.

1. The Forum is unchanged

2. The Main site includes a 'Wicki' or searchable visitor-built Le Mans reference. The visitors build the reference material and keep it fresh, but we start it with the information already on the site.

3. The Main site also includes a blogging tool for the various Le Mans groups to post group-related diary and pictures. It will also be open to race teams to post press releases.

What do you think?

That sounds good to me, specially the blog add on!

Sounds good Dave.

Particularly point number 1!!!!  ;)

Good idea Dave, especiallly the blog facility.

The idea is to take the strength of the CA forum community and apply the same formula to the remainder of the site. There is so much wit and wisdom out there, we thought it would be logical to have CA peeps do it for themselves.


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 Comments please on this proposal for re-build of Club Arnage.

1. The Forum is unchanged

2. The Main site includes a 'Wicki' or searchable visitor-built Le Mans reference. The visitors build the reference material and keep it fresh, but we start it with the information already on the site.

3. The Main site also includes a blogging tool for the various Le Mans groups to post group-related diary and pictures. It will also be open to race teams to post press releases.

What do you think?

I think the forum part of the web site works well, so would be in favour of keeping it the same, I don’t often look at the rest as it seems to be out of date most of the time (appreciate it would be a big commitment to keep it up), so the addition of the "wicki" and a "blog" feature would be good as they would be interesting and self maintaining.

Erm being a complete techno plonker can I ask what a Wiki & a blog are?

Whitey

Think of a blog as diary/scrapbook/journal and a wiki as an encyclopedia which the readers maintain.

I stand to be corrected on that, but that's how I see them.

Steve

ps Both excellent ideas

Wiki = A Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
It allows everyday users to create and edit any page.

Blog = short for "Web Log" in essence an online diary but it has grown to be a lot more than that. Examples of 'Blog' are things like myspace.com and livejournal.com

Both sound good ideas.

I have never used either so am not sure how it works, but is there a chance that the wiki could become abused with incorrect and misleading info put onto the system?

Wiki is actually the abbreviation of the German term "Wissenskiste" which means something like "knowledge box" when translated one to one.

The Wiki entries would be moderated/edited before they progress to the public area of the site. We would recruit a cadre of moderators from forum regulars to make sure things don't get held up for too long.

The same goes to a lesser extent with the Blog. Only the blog owners and CA admin would have posting access.

thanks for the info i think ;D

Brick how are you nice to here from you

Dave,  i like the suggestions, especially 1 & 3, what sought of server space will we have for photographs etc?  I'm asking as a lot of us use Webshots and Flickr etc for our LM trips and meets.  Peter

Not thought of that...  maybe CA should also freehost LM images.  I could include image gallery in the blogger. That way you could have pics hosted with us.

 

Like both ideas.

Dave, couple of ways to tackle the file size, either specify it as per avatar now, ie, 500 pixels wide @ 72dpi JPEG or have a convertor.

Blog & wiki is perfect, please leave the forum untouched as it works fine

Werner

Dave, the Wiki idea sounds interesting.  I'm sure with the collective efforts and knowledge of those on this site, it could be very worthwhile.

As to Blogs, I'm not normally in the habit of writing a 'diary' but I imagine this would be a useful feature for us to publish our race experiences and photos.

And for the forum - first class - to remain as is please.

Its taken me two weeks to figure out you have removed the - from between club and arnage woundered why I lost all the buttons on the home page ::)

Shouldn't make any difference, the '-' version and the dehyphenated CA are exactly the same. In fact they both use exactly the same filesystem on the same server. It's just two virtual hosts pointing at the same heap of HTML.

If your buttons don't work then it's more likely that you have a cache issue on your PC that your machine is getting confused over.

I hope Lennart might get to helping me set up the blog+wiki some time after christmas. At that time I might create a separate site for testing (maybe using the '-' domain).

1 - Keep the forum as it is

2 - Extra stuff that will add to the information available would be great - as you say needs to be moderated/checked (happy to help there if you need)

Otherwise, thanks for the work that already goes into making it a great site.

MG Mark

As a newbie here, I like the layout of the forums - there's not too many different areas like some I could mention.

As for the Wiki and Blog?  Excellent idea.  I've always wanted one of those.  Are they as good as Bang & Olfsen?  (Sorry... ;))

Like Papa, just getting used to the layout (having been chastised for not signing up sooner) but wiki and blog seems like the right way to go..

Hi
I have been logging on to the Sebring fans forum recently and even as this one stands it blows the US site away.

Much more sensible as well... most of the time.


Martini...

I agree.

Forum seems to work fine and easy to use, etc.

But agree with the comments about the rest of the site (but I can only assume it is difficult to maintain a site on a full time basis).

I think any improvement to content and variety of info on the main site would be good.

Hi Dave,

I've just been setting up a wiki for my local Linux User Group.  It took  about 30 min If you like I can set one as a sand pit for those not familiar with Wikis to play with and it may also give every one an idea of how usfull a wiki would be. 

I'd be happy to moderate/edit the wiki when it comes.

What do you think?

T.

yeah, this whole idea sounds good. especially the wiki, i use Wikipedia for research ect and it can be very useful if upto date. hope you can achieve all of this! Moped boy

Hmm...never heard that one before. I always believed it to mean:
More info in the mother of all Wiki's: WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki)

I think you should do both Dave. How have you been? I will be going to the race this year as a spectator (not media, unfortunately) and will be in Parking Bleu. Anyway, thread hijack asside, I think you need both the blog and the wicki.

Mark

How about -as for this forum- to try and have less stickies on the GD-page, and upgrade the amount of topics per page from 20 to 25 or 30. The way it is at the moment, some topics slip away to page two too soon...

Or is this more of a Moderator issue? ::)

For a techi-thicko - simple explanation of "Wiki" and "Blog" please.  Sound like a detective series I used to watch as a kid.  No, sorry that was Hickie and Boggs. ???

How about a vote for

"I havn't got a clue what you are talking about and trust the techies among us to point the way forward"

Tom tried to explain all this a while ago but apart from the bit about installing a sandpit, I really didn't understand it. I'm a techno thicko too but surely the sand will get in the hard drive and ruin it? There's bound to be viruses and worms in the sand too. No, don't mess with things you don't know nothing about I say.

I'll vote for that.