[LCC] Contesting Wiki

[Scott Dickson, W5WZ]

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:32:29 -0400

From: Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com>

Subject: [CQ-Contest] Announcing the Contesting Compendium Wiki

To: cq-contest at contesting.com

 

The Contesting Compendium is up and running, at 

<http://wiki.contesting.com/>http://wiki.contesting.com 

.  Our objective is to make this into a one-stop 

source for information on contesting, and to 

ensure that all the good stuff that is now 

scattered across the Internet doesn't succumb to 

the ravages of time, hard drive failures, or other accidents of history.

 

So now it's up to us.  I want to start by 

emphasizing the "us" element.  I'm committed to 

making this work, but it will fail unless it 

becomes a true community project. I'm going to 

suggest the broadest organizational outlines, but 

from that point forward it is up to you, 

contesters around the world, who have information 

to contribute. Don't feel that what you know or 

want to say is not of broad enough interest ? 

there is room in the Compendium for articles that 

are as broad as ?antenna design for contesting? 

and as narrow as ?contesting in Iraq in 2005.?

 

We (KM3T, K5TR, K5ZD,N5KO and I) have created a 

start to a 

<http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/Table_of_Contents>Table 

of Contents. It might best be described as a 

rough outline or starting point for ideas on 

content and structure. You should feel free to 

edit or add to the 

<http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/Table_of_Contents>Table 

of Contents and also to add actual content. There 

is already some content linked from the table of contents.

 

Please check out the 

<http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/How_to_Read/Browse>How 

to Read/Browse and 

<http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/How_To_Contribute>How 

To Contribute pages, for the nuts and bolts. 

You?ll need to create an account to join in, but 

we pledge that none of your data will be shared outside the Compendium team

 

Nothing is cast in concrete ? if you want to 

suggest other ideas, edit away ? everyone who 

signs up to become a contributor or editor and 

edit any page except those - typically articles 

from other sources reused in their entirety with 

permission of their authors - that are locked. My 

hope is that eventually we'll have hundreds of 

authors contributing material and keeping it up 

to date.  If you don't want to edit other 

people's work, feel free to use the Discussion 

tab at the top of each page to give us your 

suggestions.  And also please feel free to drop 

me a note if I can help you become a contributor.

 

73,

 

Pete Smith N4ZR

Managing Editor and Chief Compendium Lackey

Dave Pascoe, KM3T

George Fremin III, K5TR

Randy Thompson, K5ZD

Trey Garlough, N5KO

 

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