[Pilot Of The US]

Your FAQ is downloadable in a package isnt it?

How come the wiki isnt, i mean i'd love to download it and browse through it offline. But i guess the reason is coz it's updated too often (am i right?).

[TopAce]

The Wiki is not updated often. Look at the Recent changes window. It rather became an SCP FAQ than a FreeSpace Modding manual. When things get updated at the SCP, it goes there.

[Xelion]

Originally posted by Pilot Of The US
Your FAQ is downloadable in a package isnt it?

See what I mean , isn't it obvious that things are better when you can download them at least in its minimal form if possible.

Originally posted by Pilot Of The US
How come the wiki isnt, i mean i'd love to download it and browse through it offline. But i guess the reason is coz it's updated too often (am i right?).

Like TopAce said, it's not updated often but its not downloadable because that would defy its natural concept, an online (often updated - not currently) encyclopaedia of the Freespace Universe.

[Pilot Of The US]

@kara - Keep your FAQ online as it is and update it as much as possible. If you a question is too hard to answer, link it to the wiki. I really like the whole downloadable package thingy.

@Xelion - Why cant we change the concept of the wiki to a "online, downloadable encyclopedia of the freespace universe?"

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Pilot Of The US
Your FAQ is downloadable in a package isnt it?

I didn't know that there was that much demand for the downloadable version but yeah. The current download might be a little bit out of date though (Well more out of date than the rest of the FAQ). I'll change things around when I finally get around to the big upgrade I'm planning.

[Xelion]

Originally posted by Pilot Of The US
@Xelion - Why cant we change the concept of the wiki to a "online, downloadable encyclopedia of the freespace universe?"

You would need some kind of plug-in/server side-script for that I believe. Its possible although I'm not the one to contact on this, Lonestar or Sandwich is.

[Pilot Of The US]

huh. But kara made his FAQ downloadable so easy just by saving his website into a zip file. Cant we use the same technique to make it into a downloadabe package. And say every 3-6 months a new package is compiled.

[Xelion]

Its a Wiki not a website, I don't exactly know what the Wiki is based on, it might be possible, but every 3-6 months is pointless as data is updated quite frequently in some circumstances. I'm still not the one to contact about this, I don't operate or maintain the wiki. If I did it would be online just as is now but include several more features mostly because there are some features that can not be included in a download .

[karajorma]

My FAQ is also signifacantly smaller than the wiki

[TopAce]

New link to my FRED Document:
http://www.swooh.com/peon/TopAce/FSHelp.html

[GT-Keravnos]

@ Karajorma, do take some time with your FAQ, placing entire parts of it in Wiki, and changing/scraping others as needed.

Thing is information overlap is good for the soul...

[karajorma]

I don't object to taking some time to fix the FAQ. What I'm worried about is that I'll have to do it again 3 months down the line.

The SCP is moving so fast that certain parts of the FAQ get old very quickly.

[Pilot Of The US]

Yeah,  i see your problem. Maybe you could have special 'update news' page where you can quickly announce the new stuff, link it to the wiki, and leave a warning on your FAQ that you only update it a few times a month or something like that.

Really love your download feature!