Website-Related Idea for Tom (Please read)

[Wes Janson]

While I'd be tempted to say that this has already been done before (and perhaps it has), apparantly www.paintballdictionary.com has not been registered yet. So, what I'd like to throw out to AGD, is the idea of registering a hosting a relatively small site, for newbies and veterans alike. Take the basic concept of Wikipedia.org: a user-submitted online dictionary. Now apply it to paintball in general. For new players looking to learn about the sport, they can look up terms and history on the website. For the person who has a rare "six-pack" they picked up at a yardsale and can't identify, ten seconds of searching will bring up an entry giving a brief description of the item, who made it, relevent details, and possibly a link to a site with more info. You could put up a section talking about myths in paintball, to educate the newbs and prevent their heads from filling up with advertising bull. From a community perspective, it would be a very valuable resource. From a business perspective, it would gain AGD a large amount of traffic, raise the public awareness in new players of mags in general, and help combat images previously or currently associated with the name in general. It's a win/win situation. And there's no patent* on it yet

*DISCLAIMER: By making this post, Wes Janson gives full permission to Air Gun Designs to utilize the idea(s) detailed above in any manner that fits them, for as long as they wish.

[AGD]

That sounds like a good project for AO not AGD.

AGD

[Fixion]

Not a bad idea. I can help webstuff if needed.

[Wes Janson]

That sounds like a good project for AO not AGD.

How would you define the difference between the two sites's operators as being? (aren't they both run by the same AGD employees?)

And thanks for responding so fast

[Wrathchild]

AO = Loyal Fanbase. AGD = AGD

[Wes Janson]

But both are hosted by the same company (presumably), and both are run by the same people (presumably). A dictionary site would have to be hosted by the same company and, quite likely need to be produced/run by paid professionals. Or maybe not. For it to become a major resource for players, it would likely need serious support.

[MantisMag]

i think he means some of the members on AO should do it. i could be wrong but it's a thought. we have quite a few IT professionals on the board. if it really did become a big resource adspace and perhaps donations could provide funding for the site. as for manpower, you'd have to figure that out. the mods here are volunteers but i think without the community you'd be hard pressed to find someone willing to donate that amount of time in the long term.

[jayloo]

I made www.jayloo.com - Paintball Photo Gallery. After I clean up the few bugs that r left I could do this project.

Any objections?

BTW, that name www.paintballdictionary.com is no longer available.

[FreakBaller12]

https://www.thepaintballdictionary.com

we need web space. This will need a group effort from all of us. A few peopel to look at the entries so there are no doubles or wrong entries. Some people have to look over it before they add.

[WARPED1]

It's called WARPIG.

[Wes Janson]

Jayloo seems to have registered www.paintballdictionary.com, so we've got the URL. The next step is for someone to create the HTML for the website, both the main pages, and the database-related elements. I know nothing about anything, so I'm afraid I'm useless here. Personally I think this is something AGD should own themselves, as a community resource. Perhaps as a segment of AO itself.

It's called WARPIG

WARPIG has alot of things on it, but it's organization is lacking to some degree, and in this particular case there's nothing like it on there. I like WARPIG, but it isn't this. If a newbie is reading online, and hears someone talking about "sweetspotting", or "PPS" then this would be where they would immediately turn to for an explanation.

[jayloo]

It is a good idea and an active AOer should do it since AGD passed it up. Yes, I got the name and I also have the space and programming ability. We can make this an AO project for those interested.

We can start by posting a list of what the site should have.

[datapimp69]

well this is going to be interesting.

since i have an order comformation that i bought paintballdictionary.com

we will let internic figure out who has it

not trying to sound like an *** i just saw this and went and bought it.

i have the server too and all the bandwidth i need.

[jayloo]

LOL, I guess great minds think alike. No matter what, it is a good idea and deserves to happen regardless.

I am a resource either way.

[datapimp69]

i think you will get it since i did reg it till around 11pm last night.

i just cant wait to see them fight it out over who gets it.

if we wanted to have fun, and maybe some money we could both fight it and make them pay