Given that my article started this discussion, I should add my 2 cents worth. I?ll continue to do what I?m doing rather than putting this stuff on CHWiki. Grant?s motivations and explanations for posting on his site are pretty much the same as mine. I document these things largely for myself as an ?activity record?, but I hope others also find them useful and can learn articles usually contain reflections etc. Where some advice is given, it is something that has worked for me, and the text does not always cover all options (or their pros and cons), or contain references. I tend to share the link around the groups I belong to once the article is complete in case it's relevant to someone. Not everyone will read it of course but I figure that if there is a glaring omission, or something that is just plain wrong, someone will comment and I'll amend the text. All the articles allow comments, so people can add their own thoughts/corrections/extensions if they want to. If I had to go to that extent of writing it as a robust, referenced, refereed, definitive technical article, I probably wouldn?t bother. I am not at all diminishing the usefulness of such a document on some aspect of vintage computing?that stuff is often gold and I applaud people for doing it. It?s just I don?t have the time, motivation (or often the deep expertise in the subject matter) to do it. For me, vintage computing is a hobby, and these articles are a creative outlet. I do enough technical writing in my real job as an academic in the agricultural sciences. Maybe when I'm retired.... It is not silly?and actually, that is quite an honest reflection. I like to add articles to ?Tezza?s blog? when I complete an activity. It keeps these articles together, people can see what I do, and the kind of things I am interested it. Google captures the pages, although it can take a few weeks for them to appear in searches. I am confident most people could find them with well-thought out search terms. The pages are easily linked and shared with Facebook etc. Personally I never use wikis etc, when looking for information. I always use a search engine. I usually find what I want. I suspect 99% of people do this. Sometimes the search engine points me to a wiki of course. Posting under my own domain does allow a great deal of control, as opposed to contributing to another site. It means you can change the style if you want, add advertisements (I don?t intend to) and add bits and pieces which may facilitate social media and sharing. A couple of years ago I revamped the whole site so it would be mobile friendly. Like Grant, I have no objection to anyone linking to the site or amending/adding what I?ve done (with appropriate citation). We all stand on the shoulders of others. Terry (Tez)

On 02/11/2018 05:25 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: I'm not sure I follow what you mean. I've had plenty of things that I've found and referenced over the years that have disappeared from where I knew it was. As such, I've taken to mirroring copies of it on my site, with proper accreditation. I usually add a comment to the effect that I'm hosting a local copy of it in case it disappears or moves. I also provide a contact link at the bottom of my pages that anyone can use to comment on said page. -- Grant. . . . unix || die