On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:05:07 -0700, Grant Erwin wrote:

I do know something about technical writing, and any such publication would be
of dubious quality unless some attempt were made to keep it to a certain minimum
level of writing quality.

Well, that's the cool think about a wiki. You can drop a template into
an article, change it so it's a basic map, and people who care enough to
improve it will do so. All changes can be backed out in case some idiot
comes in and valdalizes it, of course.

This could be accomplished by a system of peer review
which might look like: a guy writes a piece and publishes it, then another
person reads it and sees how it could be improved and contacts the author with
suggestions, after which the author edits it and updates the piece, iterated
indefinitely. This would require a separate communication system. Even better
would be if the whole thing had a person who acted as a global moderator, who
could if given sufficient motivation remove articles entirely.

In the case of a wiki, everybody, and nobody, is the moderator. Those
who care about the artcle watch it, improve it, and so on. Vandalism is
surprisingly rare.

It's worth a shot. If his setup of a wiki is as easy as my setup of a
wiki, we've spent more time talking about it than it would take to set
it up.

Dave