Onthepath, your suggestions are spot on!

Jelsoft, the developers of vBulletin have an integrated blog system in development as we speak.

Just click that link to track updates on the status of this add-on product.

Meanwhile, as you described, there are ways that a sort-of blog may be rigged using the current Forum capabilities.

If you'd like to take this interim project on, contact me directly and I will create a sub-forum space and make you a moderator with enough rights to configure it and manage it.

Meanwhile...


I'd vote for something like "My Multiple Orgasm Trigger Adventure". It gets Search Engine - meaningful key phrase indexed and imho journey may seem like a bit of a trudge, whereas adventure it seems to me has more zing. What do you think?



??? I don't understand what you mean by this. What's difficult about it? Please give a link reference and details about where and why you get stuck.

That way you and I and others can add some tips for making it easier. Remember, the purpose of a wiki is to be a collaborative effort, and of course that includes writing the help articles to make the wiki content more easily accessible. - Thanks!



Could you please clarify this comment as I'm having trouble visualizing what kind of browsing you're wanting to do. We may be able to tweak the wiki to make that easier as well. Thanks!



I'm sure there are many others in the same position, and I am one of them... I'm the discoverer and a global expert on teaching the Multiple Orgasm Trigger Protocol, but that does not extend to either vBulletin or wiki software. I'm essentially in the same boat as you! Let's help each other!



Yes that's generally an advantage but it can become cumbersome if for some reason you want to change that order. Overall, I agree that the time-stamping is a benefit.

NOTE: Individual users may use the User CP (i.e., the User Control Panel) to set their own preferences for viewing a thread in descending or ascending order by date.



As a wiki novice, I may be overlooking something here too, but it seems to me that on this issue, the vBulletin Forum structure offers a distinct advantage.



That is correct, and you may also go back later and edit the subject title of your posts (or a thread moderator may have rights to edit same for all posts in a thread) using the Thread Tools option for editing a thread.



Quite right!



Not sure when it would not be a good idea since this is a public Knowledge Base. If it's not a good idea for something posted to be public, then it probably should be posted by the user at some other website's blog.

Although vB software does provide private forum option, it's not within the defined purpose of our particular application.



Except of course by moderators or administrators having editing rights.

In general, wiki's are open-edit systems, but ours is limited only to same by registered users and users do have the option on request to admin to lock content.

One very BIG advantage of the wiki is that it has version control. That is, it keeps a copy of all past versions so if somebody inadvertently or intentionally edited a wiki article (what wiki posts are called, actually) in a manner not acceptable by administrators or the author, the post could be reverted.

vB does have some ability (I think!) but so far it's not as obvious to me how to use it.

Of course in either venue, vandalism will not be tolerated (again only registered users would have that kind of access) and would result in a loss of registered user rights and even IP blocking.



If you are posting in both places, it's a good idea to post links in each, pointing to related posts in the other venue - i.e. from forum to wiki and vice versa.

BTW, this is also why I went to the considerable effort and expense to install and support both state of the art wiki and state of the art forum installations.



Most definitely! This was a particular challenge in the old klunky Akiva WebBoard forum software as moving posts and threads was a real nightmare, and basically impractical.

Since all of that content DID successfully migrate into the way cool vBulletin software we're now running, vB provides VERY easy to use ability to move and merge posts and threads. It still requires some effort though on the part of a volunterr moderator/editor to get it done though.

BTW I WELCOME volunteers to help with that kind of maintenance and fine-tuning of the Knowledge Base content. After all, I am just one guy and I have no paid staff.

This online community is ideally a truly collaborative effort so volunteer assistance is very welcome! And thanks to those who are already doing this kind work in giving something back to this community which hopefully is giving a lot to you!



Rather than stripping the wiki of content, I'd prefer that wherever in the Forum you wind up blogging, that you post a referral link to the content already posted in the wiki. That's not a total law though. If there's not much you could just post a copy of your wiki content to your new blog in the Forum.



I wouldn't necessarily call it simple but it's a heck of a lot easier than danged-nigh impossible as it was in Akiva WebBoard!

It's still a job for an editor and ahem ahem as I mentioned, I welcome volunteer editors to help with this.

vB's system is actually VERY cool as it also automatically builds in an invisible redirect link from the old location to the new location in the Forum. Now THAT is SWEET!



Absolutely! And please remember to include links in a given post that point to the posts in the other area - from Orgasmwiki to Forum and vice versa!!!

Thanks for giving this issue so much carefully articulated thought, Onthepath!

Any registered user: please contact me directly if you are willing to volunteer some time and effort to help with the content maintenance of the Forum... Thanks!

Best regards,
Jack