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Wikis with tutorial-esque content?

Hey everyone, l sent a ticket asking about this kind of thing, but no response yet so l'm asking here; (hopefully any mod answers)
anyways, l understand Wiki's are supposed to be informative and tell you what is this and give everything and all kinds of information about this something, but l was wondering if writing stuff in the Wiki could be tutorial-esque in the sense that, if it were a program, or coding language, or digital drawing or something, it could teach you methods and how to do things as well.
Such as in programs that are pretty hard to learn and understand, a list of hotkeys, how to do this, and useful tips can be in a Wiki for it.
This whole thing makes no sense and l suck at writing right now, but yeah, please let me know your opinion or if that kind of stuff should stay away from Basil wiki to keep it more simplified instead of a wall of text like Wikipedia is.

January 25, 2015

7 Comments • Newest first

Nolen

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Instructional_Design
something like this?

Reply February 6, 2015
BobR

Sounds good... give it a shot..!
I'm thinking of writing up some tech stuff too actually, to help people keep their computers clean and hopefully more reliable.. if I can find the time.

Reply January 27, 2015
QuackOutLoud

@ikable: l never intended on doing stuff like Wikipedia, l was only comparing it to Wikipedia because Wikipedia is chock full of every single detail out there on stuff.

@mmorpg: l'm happy to hear that; l wish l knew how to cook so l could contribute to it!

@BobR: l'm just hoping to expand on the Wiki categories, and hopefully other people will build up on that as well. There's so many people with all sorts of knowledge here on Basil, l feel like Wiki is a good place to "showcase" it.

Reply January 27, 2015
Pavchka

[quote=mmorpg]Stuff like tutorials and tips are exactly what should be added to the wiki. If you want to add something, do so and we'll review it. You don't have to ask to add anything that you think would be interesting. We have wiki entries for food, movie editing, music making, video games, etc.

I'd just hate to see some wikis that are put up but nothing comes out of it (i.e. my food wiki )[/quote]

I have a bunch of recipes I want to add to the food wiki someday.

Reply January 26, 2015
BobR

@QuackOutLoud Like mmorpg said, I'm not sure how many people would use something like that on Basilmarket, but there's no reason not to give it a try if you want to.
It might turn out to be valuable..!

Reply January 26, 2015
mmorpg

Stuff like tutorials and tips are exactly what should be added to the wiki. If you want to add something, do so and we'll review it. You don't have to ask to add anything that you think would be interesting. We have wiki entries for food, movie editing, music making, video games, etc.

I'd just hate to see some wikis that are put up but nothing comes out of it (i.e. my food wiki )

Reply January 26, 2015 - edited
ikable

There are already tips and etc sub categories in the wiki so you should have the green light. Im pretty sure the point of the wiki was for insightful information, not just to be a stubby copy of Wikipedia.

Reply January 26, 2015 - edited