Starting a Wiki is very straightforward:
http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia
There is an SPSS wiki there:
spss.wikia.com
Similarly, it's very easy to start other forums in other places -
Google Groups (I believe) is an easy place to do this, and it can
function as a forum, or via email. As an example, there is an R-help
list, which gets a lot of traffic, and a much smaller, quieter R group
on Google groups.
Personally, I like the lack of HTML (and I convert email to plain text
- if I can't read it, I don't), but if people prefer something else,
they will migrate to it (look, for example, at the gradual demise of
stat-l, for whatever reason).
jeremy
On 03/01/07, Ron�n Conroy <[email protected]> wrote:
On 3 Ean 2007, at 13:04, David Elliott wrote:
> The *best* solution to my mind would be a
> combination forum and Wiki where certain subject threads get condensed
> and transferred to the semi-permanent Wiki, a continually expanding
> body of knowledge that is often more easily searched and scanned than
> mailing list archives.
Now here's a suggestion! Wikis are ideally suited to a community such
as Stata users, whose accumulated expertise could be brought to bear
in a format that would allow collaboration, updating and organisation.
As an occasional Wikipedian, I can vouch for the ease with which
users can learn to contribute, and the value of a medium which allows
you to have both the current page and the underlying discussion
between the contributors visible.
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