Consider a Wiki

[Mr. Precision]

I'd like to contribute bunkai ideas etc but there isn't really anywhere on karateresource to record the info except the forums, and they're really designed for discussion rather than recording information. Nothing I have is big enough for an article and like most internet users I'm not a particularly authoritative source anyway.

Obvious examples of popular wikis include Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikibooks:

www.wikipedia.org/
www.wikitravel.org/
www.wikibooks.org/

It could be done in a similar way to the proboards if you don't fancy hosting it. There are a number of wiki providers, free and commercial:

e.g.
www.schtuff.com/
www.memebot.com/
www.wikispaces.org/
jot.com/

I haven't personally used any of them. I tend to run that kind of stuff on my linux box.

[AngelaG]

Cheers - I'll take a look into that!

[Aefibird]

That would be a good idea. We could do with something similar to wikipedia for martial arts.

[AngelaG]

I'm a bit confused as to how some of these things work. I assume anyone can't just delete/add content? I'd hate to think that someone spent time researching and writing an entry for some troll to come along and mess it up.

[Mr. Precision]

angelag said:

I'm a bit confused as to how some of these things work. I assume anyone can't just delete/add content? I'd hate to think that someone spent time researching and writing an entry for some troll to come along and mess it up.

It depends on the specific software. Some require an account, some are anonymous and some can do both. So the policy would really be up to you and the software or provider you chose.

Wiki software usually has very strong version control to combat the problem you mentioned, it happens on wikipedia where anyone can change entries. Every change to an entry is version controlled, all of the versions of the entry exist on the server all the time.

Again, depending on the software, the editor can usually remove all of the changes an individual made or all changes after a date at the touch of a button. e.g. The wiki software I use at home has a "Revert this and all later changes" button.

Wikipedia's view on trolling. You'll have to cut and paste this it doesn't work as a link because of the colon:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Troll