Re: (ET) Where is the elec-trak wikipedia page?

["David Roden" <etpost drmm net>]

On 10 Jul 2009 at 11:33, Charlie wrote:

> Wikipedia no longer has room for personal knowledge (which is where the
> real expertise on Elec-traks is) ... 

As I see it, the web has room for everyone.  As long as you don't violate 
your web hosting company's AUP, you can make a web page and the search 
engines will index it.  While making a fancy page requires some skill and 
experience, you can learn enough static html to to a simple page in a day 
or 
two.  There are also various website generators available, as computer 
software, and I think on the web too, though I've never used them.

There are still "free" (ad-supported) webservers, but between the ads and 
the stringent bandwidth limitations, most of them seem pretty abominable.  

Low-end commercial shared hosting isn't too expensive, around $3-5 per 
month.  If you don't care about some features (such as an email server) 
see 
nearlyfreespeech.net for a still cheaper alternative.

You might also consider blogger.com and similar operations, most of which 
are free (ad-supported).

I don't know about anyone else here, but when I find something in 
Wikipedia 
it's usually because a search engine dug it up for me.

So if you have an ET story to tell, I say forget Wikipedia, and put it on 
the web.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 
Note: mail sent to the "etpost" address will not reach me.  To send 
me a private message, please use the address shown at the bottom
of this page : http://www.evdl.org/help/
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =