jondrush wrote:One other thought. I'm thinking that things that change regularly such as road closures and to-do lists should be handled in the forums. Things that are relatively static should be documented in the Wiki. I want to sticky a forum thread in each state forum that points to its wiki page, when you feel it is ready for prime time. Then we should transition static topics that are already stickied in your state forum to the wiki.

Make sense?

Riamus wrote:North Carolina has a Google Doc for tracking closures including both start and end dates, WME Permalink, link to an official source about the closure, road name, and notes. It works really well for both temporary and long term closures. The downside is that not everyone knows about the doc or has access to it. It may be valuable to have something like a Google Doc set up and then link to the document on the state's Wiki and forum with a note on how to be given access to edit it. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a history like you'd have on the Wiki if someone changes something. The benefit is that it is a nice spreadsheet format that is easy to edit for basically anyone without needing to learn how to edit the Wiki correctly (not that doing so is really all that difficult for most people).

Riamus wrote:I like that CT page. It's nice and easy to see what is there. I'm wondering if there are plans to remove old closures, though. Maybe after a year? Otherwise, you'll eventually end up with a lot of re-opened rows. On a spreadsheet, that's minor, but when you're taking up as much space per item as the CT Wiki does, it becomes a bit much.

PhantomSoul wrote:The wiki is definitely tough to edit without either being a programmer or using some kind of BYO tool. Not every state is going to have editors that are savvy at directly editing the text of the wiki page, especially when it comes to complex color highlighting and table layout formatting.

AndyPoms wrote: Also, creating the Category Pages for the individual States too...