RTB forums should go back up

[Awdax]

There was also Wedge's (I think it was Wedge's) VCE tutorial for RPG elements and shops.

Striker's SketchUp tutorial.

I miss that one.

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[DontCare4Free]

I still think about the wiki occasionally and it's something I want to come back to, but I have to think about it more. Having this content available is good, but the wiki format is just way to cumbersome and unwieldy for our needs. There's a big laundry list of things it has to be able to do: it needs to be automated, it needs to give people credit for the work they do, it needs to be scalable and work well with 100 guides or 10 guides, anybody should be able to use it, you should only have to just type and drag and drop pictures into it to work, it should be free, it should be able to scrape the guides off the forums so we don't have to rewrite them, it should be both searchable and use a well organized tree structure for grouping similar articles, you should be able to write about anything you want, it should be able to integrate with these forums without requiring any work on Badspot's part (maybe using a script to automatically modify and bump a thread in modification discussion?)... Ideally we'd have some kind of FAQ/Guide subforum here where people could just post stuff using the forum software and it'd get grouped, tagged, indexed, and thrown in the forum search results automatically, and people would be able to modify/update the OP with some kind of permission system, but that's not very likely. When I come up with something I'll let you guys know.

About the attribution part, tried looking at how the SE network community wikis work? Is that what you'd like?

[Wedge]

About the attribution part, tried looking at how the SE network community wikis work? Is that what you'd like?

Maybe. I have no idea what the SE network community is.

A big part of people posting guides is that they get to put their name iin the thread title. They think it makes them Internet famous or something, but the point is it seems to encourage people to make guides and it's a behavior we can exploit. But there is also a necessity for people who didn't write the guide to be able to update and maintain guides once the op stops doing it themselves. For example, all those big lists of tutorials on the modification discussion forums are outdated by a couple of years.

[shyGriff]

Ah, I miss the RTB forums.

Why exactly were they deleted?

[DontCare4Free]

Maybe. I have no idea what the SE network community is.

A big part of people posting guides is that they get to put their name iin the thread title. They think it makes them Internet famous or something, but the point is it seems to encourage people to make guides and it's a behavior we can exploit. But there is also a necessity for people who didn't write the guide to be able to update and maintain guides once the op stops doing it themselves. For example, all those big lists of tutorials on the modification discussion forums are outdated by a couple of years.

No, the SE "community wiki". It's basically a post that anyone can edit, doesn't grant rep and shows who contributed the most, along with how much of it that person contributed to the post. In other words, it seems to be exactly the concept you want. Inherently, as the OP hasn't contributed the most anymore he also loses the "main credit" spot, although the fact that he posted it can still be seen on the revision log.

Example of SE community wiki post
Shapado - Open-source SE clone using RoR
OSQA - Open-source SE clone using Django

[SWAT One]

No, no one followed the board rules and suggested whatever crap they wanted.  It's now only open for RTB Development.