I would think that if your first thread was rejected and you wanted to prove to people that it was an idea worth considering you would add extra information rather than just post a few sentences and say "oh I would give more information but..." Why not give more information so maybe we have more reason to agree with you? :<
Anyway I personally don't think we need a wiki. PC is self-sufficient in its forums and almost anything I can imagine we'd need to put into a wiki can be covered within the forums. It seems like a big effort for little gain.
I will acquiesce your point on adding more information, and give the flimsy excuse that my original post was both in irritation, and on my phone, where it is hard to make a truly strong argument. As for my reasoning, i shall make my points here:
1.
Clear, concise articles on information.
[My examples will do with the emulation and game development subforums, as that's where i spend most of my time on here and consider the notion of a wiki to be truly indispensable, but i believe that other parts of this site would/could find a use for one, if they so see fit.]
Tutorial threads, program threads, and help threads make up the majority of the subforums, and are cluttered with flame wars, questions left unanswered or answered elsewhere (and in rare occasions, better left unasked), off topic comments, and posts that are unneeded when trying to research and gather information (ie "when is the new beta?", "i luv this hack yay"). While i am biased some against such posts, i realize that in a forum, they are next to necessary. However in a wiki they are as i put them: unneeded, and clutter. A wiki would be a place for clear tutorials and the results of research, and none of the 20 pages of of bickering and trial and error that users have to sift through to get to the good information. Not to mention most wiki programs have discussion pages built in, so every page has its own pseudo-thread to discuss these things.
2.
Better Organization
Instead of 8-9 sub-forums for Emulation, and 4-5 for game development, i foresee them each having two, maybe three tops. Things like help threads would become almost a thing of the past, as well as tutorials, toolbox, and the hack showcase, if not more. Threads like research and development would be the main part of the forum, instead of threads like "i can't get my emulator to work, help!" cause there'd be a wiki page on troubleshooting your emulator. bam, done, lets move on to a relevant topic.
the wiki could provide all the functionality of these subforums, again, without the need to sift through pages and pages of user opinion and clashes. Concise articles, information pages, and troubleshooting pages would render nearly half of these forums obsolete, which from the perpesective of someone trying to create their own hack, is a godsend. They could actually get the information they need, and maybe even be able to see where the community is lacking in critical information and be able to lend a helping hand in these areas, instead of being drowned in the quagmire of endless threads of half-info, and incomplete research.
This is where we would see little effort being put in, because some (if not the majority of) info can be copy and pasted, forgoing the user comments and sidebars inbetween the "meat" of the subject, and users with more info can add their piece as they are needed to, and the community at large would see a monumental, almost staggering amount of gain for this.
if a PC wiki is a moderator-only feature, what is its purpose?
If vandalism is a concern, let only people who have created programs and who run teams and/or have hack threads be able to edit pages. In this way, the help thread could still have a place in the forum, but would be more focused on correcting emulator problems than user errors.
