> From: Grant Taylor >> people are more likely to find it, when they're looking for info on a >> topic, if it's part of something like the CHWiki, than they are on >> individual Web sites.
> I question the validity of it. It wasn't just supposition on my part; as I had mentioned: >> I just tried a few samples to verify that claim and I didn't cheat by using, e.g. KT11-B, I tried to use fairly generic things, e.g. 'RK05 disk drive' (third listing), 'PDP-11' (fifth listing), etc. Admittedly, that's hardly cast-iron proof, but it's a lot beter than just 'it stands to [my] reason'.... > searching Google for CHWiki came up with things that I think were name > collisions. Huh? If you do a Google search for 'computer history wiki', it's the first non-Wikipedia page in the results list. I call it the CHWiki when typing posts for here since I would get tired of typing out the whole long 'Computer History wiki' every time, but I will add that short term to some pages there to help it show up under that name. > I'd be more likely to publish things on (what I consider to be) an even > bigger and more well known Wiki, namely Wikipedia. Be my guest! :-) I've been there, done that, and moved on, because I got tired of stupidity like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:History_of_the_Internet/Archive_3#Pictures Also, the page that started this ("How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1") might well be ditched from Wikipedia, for a variety of Wiki-bureacratic reasons I won't get into here ('no original research', plus to which it's not really suitable material for a general encyclopaedia). >> http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/V6Unix.html >> http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/multics/MulticsPanels.html >> http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/DECIndicatorPanels.html >> >> so I do understand going that way. > it seems as if you are asking us to do something different than you > yourself are currently doing Err, no. The first and third _pre-date_ my joining the CHWiki. Why I did the second one as a page on my own site, I don't really recall - maybe because it changed so much in the course of researching it? (It's very convenient - I had the HTML source on disk opened in a browser window, and any time I wanted to see what it currently looked like, I just had to hit the 'refresh' button.) I have done several major things only on the CHWiki, e.g.: http://gunkies.org/wiki/KT11-B_Technical_Manual as well as a ton of other stuff. But clearly you aren't interested in moving off your own personal site - which is fine. Noel