Open the FAF wiki
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@brutus5000 said in Open the FAF wiki:
You just need to invest 10 minutes of work to ask around who can give access and you will get it.
This ^.
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Every single person who has asked me for accesses to edit the wiki I've given it to them I've not said no to anyone. like brutus said.
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@zeldafanboy Feel free to spend the time and add all 400+ units to the wiki
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There's a massive difference between having to ask someone for an account and being able to register asynchronously. Seriously. Very few people are going to go out of their way to ask for an account even assuming that they knew how to go about doing that. I would bet most wiki contributors (in other wikis) get started just by adding something small randomly one day and there's just way too big of a barrier to entry for that in faf, even it it's "just" asking "someone".
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The lack of that manpower in the wiki is also reflected in the lack of admin manpower to patrol for stupid changes. If we had the latter you could have it be more free. But we don’t.
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This is what an "anyone can edit" wiki looks like
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@blodir said in Open the FAF wiki:
There's a massive difference between having to ask someone for an account and being able to register asynchronously. Seriously.
The history / experience of the old wiki proves you wrong. Seriously.
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Blodir is not wrong. In the case of the wiki it didn't make a substantional difference sadly. You are both correct
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@brutus5000 said in Open the FAF wiki:
@blodir said in Open the FAF wiki:
There's a massive difference between having to ask someone for an account and being able to register asynchronously. Seriously.
The history / experience of the old wiki proves you wrong. Seriously.
I mean it's of course possible that people won't contribute either way. The faf wiki specifically has 0 momentum behind it. Very few people ever use the faf wiki for anything as far as I know (I think there's some mapping guides there?). People don't want to contribute if they feel like nobody will care about their contributions. So yea anyway multiple reasons of course and there's no guarantee that being open will make people want to contribute on its own, but being closed is definitely a big impediment.
