Hey Valis,
Maybe a captcha before editing or signing up can bring stress-relief there?
Also did a couple of clean sweeps, but last time I noticed them robots are actually editing existing pages, too, flushing out links to whole groups of pages... painfull =\
OTOH, there isn't much contributions to
http://www.scopedia.net , apart from 2-3 regulars... If only others would add little sensible bits from time to time, that would have the wiki grow and provide inspiration and encouragement to the current editors. The wiki needs a bunch of information to be representative, but without any user contributions that's just not gonna happen. );
Is there a need for such a wiki? I think so, since most everything about Scope has been said here on z - apart from the artistic or production-technical. The Scope system has been documented inside out here, but spread over 10 years of forum and even from the old articles section, "The Pulsar Pages," the latency measuring howto comes to mind... A wiki seems ideal for such tasks, much more efficient than the search engine here.
How does a n00b get started on Scope? Best case scenario he post his questions, goals, desires somewhere on this forum. And we reply to the same but different questions time on time again. A wiki would be perfect for people who just want to hop through answers, but it also requires contributions from those who know. And that user base has become practically dead quiet, mainly because Scope's furthest corners have been explored and mapped.
Let's hope the releases from S|C, like Xite, bring extra features to the development side with the new SDK that re-ignite creative fresh-sounding device releases, and the user-base with it. But that won't be for the PCI cards we have now. Xite has largely simplified hardware options - ever tried to explain to friends about the different cards, daughterboards, outboard AD/DA..? The focus is totally shifting from the installation/technical to the project, the artistic - which is great news. But productions techniques are more generic, and apart from modular and the routing (for which there is no musically worthy alternative) often not Scope-bound. If I may try to predict, user contributions will continue to decline and splinter, the only thing I see that can change the decline is Xite's hardware architecture and a new SDK with hardware-dependent exciting new possibilities and optimizations. If that doesn't happen, the user-base won't become so vibrant again as, let's say 5-10 years ago, and that's essential for a comprehensible user-contributed Scope documentation.
Although the ScopeRise newsletter is rolling, and has diverse and interesting articles, I have my doubts on weither it can grow far beyond the current user-base as long as it isn't linked officially from S|C's site - like S|C officially announced Xited.org forums earlier this month. Maybe do a year test-run then try to have it up there at S|C's? In the meanwhile, much respect to dante for putting the whole ScopeRise together so nicely!
I'm just pulling in the newsletter in this topic to come to the point of the wiki - to have a means for anyone, user or aspirant, to get excited about possibilities, tricks and techniques for Scope and get comprehensible documentation on this deep niche-subject.
Wow this post has grown beyond proportions, all that just to suggest a captcha :D
Greetings,
at0m.