From: Grant Taylor
> people are more likely to find it, when
they're looking for info on a
> topic, if it's part of something like the CHWiki, than they are on
> individual Web sites.
I question the validity of it.
It wasn't just supposition on my part; as I had mentioned:
> I just tried a few samples to verify that claim
and I didn't cheat by using, e.g. KT11-B, I tried to use fairly generic
things, e.g. 'RK05 disk drive' (third listing), 'PDP-11' (fifth listing),
etc.
Admittedly, that's hardly cast-iron proof, but it's a lot beter than just 'it
stands to [my] reason'....
searching Google for CHWiki came up with things that I
think were name
collisions.
Huh? If you do a Google search for 'computer history wiki', it's the first
non-Wikipedia page in the results list.
I call it the CHWiki when typing posts for here since I would get tired of
typing out the whole long 'Computer History wiki' every time, but I will add
that short term to some pages there to help it show up under that name.
I'd be more likely to publish things on (what I
consider to be) an even
bigger and more well known Wiki, namely Wikipedia.
Be my guest! :-) I've been there, done that, and moved on, because I got
tired of stupidity like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:History_of_the_Internet/Archive_3#Pictur…
Also, the page that started this ("How to enable USB drives in both Windows
98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1") might well be ditched from Wikipedia, for a variety of
Wiki-bureacratic reasons I won't get into here ('no original research', plus
to which it's not really suitable material for a general encyclopaedia).
it seems as if you are asking us to do something
different than you
yourself are currently doing
Err, no. The first and third _pre-date_ my joining the CHWiki.
Why I did the second one as a page on my own site, I don't really recall -
maybe because it changed so much in the course of researching it? (It's very
convenient - I had the HTML source on disk opened in a browser window, and
any time I wanted to see what it currently looked like, I just had to hit the
'refresh' button.)
I have done several major things only on the CHWiki, e.g.:
http://gunkies.org/wiki/KT11-B_Technical_Manual
as well as a ton of other stuff.
But clearly you aren't interested in moving off your own personal site -
which is fine.
Noel