Wiki vs forum

[rachel_norfolk]

Not really. I means when you want to tell us about your personal experience of a border crossing, we have a form that asks if you had to use a Varner, show your vehicle documents, driving licence etc. Things people need to know.

It just means each example of information has the same questions answered. Nothing more than that.

[chris]

Originally Posted by rachel_norfolk

When we have structure, we can do really clever things, like create pages where you can search for “X in Sibiu”. And then see a categorised map of results.

Why do we need "X in Sibiu". Why not just search Sibiu and have everything relating to the former Hermannstadt in one place? You're not going to have more than 10 facts on any place are you?

Why does there need to be a complex structure? What's wrong with searching on "Romania" (using your Sibiu example) or clicking on a map of Europe on the country north of Bulgaria and then reading/updating Sibiu (e.g. the bit about Red Bull Romania event dates). Or just clicking on the map where Sibiu is highlighted? Just like a regular wiki.

People on the HUBB look for stuff like accommodation off street bike parking, borders, insurance offices, mechanics, good biking roads nearby etc.

Field names like Country/city/accom with parking/insurance/mechanic/one or 2 others can't be that complex to manage in a database and present in a shiney layout on a wiki.

If they want restaurants they can check TripAdvisor

[Mark hadley]

I find wikipedia country pages very well structured. I am impressed by the plans to add structure to the forum, but I don't see how that will give me up to date information in one place.