Making "Howto" Posts Better

Rational use of wiki?

[rharri]

From time-to-time, someone on this forum (usually senior) will post a comprehensive treatment of a subject such as "Maximizing Conversion Rates" or Brett's guide to creating a top site. The responses to these posts usually add important points or enlarge on points in the original post.

My question is whether this special class of post could be made even more useful if posted as a wiki with the originator retaining editorial control but additions and alterations (by others) being made to a single document rather than spread over many messages. The final product might be placed in a special category ("WW Wisdom?") for reading by newcomers such as myself.

What do you think?

Bob

[engine]

I presume you've been to the WebmasterWorld library [webmasterworld.com]

With the fluidity of the industry, it's best to keep an eye on the latest posts cropping up. Quite often the best threads are referenced in the new threads.

[rharri]

With the fluidity of the industry ...
I agree. If it were any more fluid, it'd be gaseous ;-)

But, some things seem pretty constant. For example, the CSS forum has howto threads and SuzyK (sp?) has been seeking the "holy grail" of CSS (3 column fluid with header/footer) for months now and there are multiple threads. That topic would make a good wiki subject.

I'm not suggesting this for a discussion of Google's algo or anything else that changes rapidly but there is plenty left once those topics are removed.

Bob