Hi!
Sometimes I used to google out things. I refer to hours and days long google sessions hunting for information buried deep and scattered throughout the net. The result of those sessions used to be some tens of more-or-less useful links, and some sentences about them. It is rather poor quality for an encyclopedia, yet contains valuable information.
For example it took 2 days figuring out how to build a solar collector by hand. I have found lot of background material, some ten howtos, most of them was paying (i cannot afford to pay for them). There was three marginally useful free one, and only one and a half has described the type I was looking for. But it did not contain some valuable information I found elsewhere, and did contain a small problem impacting its efficiency.
I would happily add a little extra effort (just a little, no wikifying) to share this kind of information. What is the proper place to put them, and how?
Or should I just dump my findings into a suitable article and tag {{Attention}} or {{Cleanup}} ?
For howtos, wikibooks is a better place for them.
John Collison
On 30 Dec 2004, at 23:01, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
Hi!
Sometimes I used to google out things. I refer to hours and days long google sessions hunting for information buried deep and scattered throughout the net. The result of those sessions used to be some tens of more-or-less useful links, and some sentences about them. It is rather poor quality for an encyclopedia, yet contains valuable information.
For example it took 2 days figuring out how to build a solar collector by hand. I have found lot of background material, some ten howtos, most of them was paying (i cannot afford to pay for them). There was three marginally useful free one, and only one and a half has described the type I was looking for. But it did not contain some valuable information I found elsewhere, and did contain a small problem impacting its efficiency.
I would happily add a little extra effort (just a little, no wikifying) to share this kind of information. What is the proper place to put them, and how?
Or should I just dump my findings into a suitable article and tag {{Attention}} or {{Cleanup}} ?
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:01:44 +0000, Magosányi Árpád mag@bunuel.tii.matav.hu wrote:
Hi! *snip* Or should I just dump my findings into a suitable article and tag {{Attention}} or {{Cleanup}} ?
The links could go in the External links sections of relevant articles. Anything you wrote yourself could go to Wikisource.
--Slowking Man
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