Website-Related Idea for Tom (Please read)

[FreakBaller12]

we need titles and sub titles obviosuly and a search button

mags then a topic as parts of mags and stuff
the speedball lingo
general lingo. Stuff like that.

I'd be glad to help out. let us all know.

[nippinout]

paintballtech

It's a wiki site for paintball tech stuff.

I still prefer Have Blue's Ratsnest though.

[Dryden]

According to a whois search for paintballdictionary.com, Jayloo has it.

I would certainly be willing to help with the site as well. I've got ample experience with Unix, Linux, MySQL, and PHP, and the OC-12 fiber connection at work doesn't hurt either!

[ClassicMagger]

Hey:

If you guys need any help with definitions and terms of ANY older paintball guns and items. Then I can definately help you out there. I am completely lost with computer stuff. But if terms and definitions are needed let me know. I would be more than happy to help.

ClassicMagger

[TheDoveDecends]

Id be happy to help out... im expierenced in hosting and such. Have owned many websites.. so id be glad to help out with whatever is needed!

[Major Jam]

http://www.airgun.com/Game/index.shtml

[jayloo]

Post more requirements and ideas for the content of this dictioary.

[Dryden]

Originally posted by jayloo
Post more requirements and ideas for the content of this dictioary.

My first thought is that there should be dedicated server space with Apache, PHP, MySQL under either a flavor of Linux or BSD Unix. Set up a general purpose forum, similar to this one, running phpBB2 to get started on the brainstorming. From there, people can volunteer or be nominated for technical, critical, writing, and artistic responsibilities.

My concern with a paintball dictionary/wiki, in the sense of a true wiki-wiki, is that there are just simply going to be too many PBN'ers and pbreview'ers editing good posts with "don't buy it, it sucks" critiques and inline images from ebaumsworld.

A wiki type package, with an authorized change/commit/review process would probably be best.

Most importantly, I think it is prudent, and in the spirit of AO, not to limit ideas solely to the realms of AGD products. It should be much more ambitious, with histories available for any marker, or any vendor, from all eras back to the early 80s.

I'm thinking of a hierarchal database, similar to Wikipedia or Yahoo!, with a general purpose dictionary section (explain industry terms, pb'er slang, etc.), a product glossary (illustrated history back to the original Crosman oil based markers), company histories/personalities (from the people that invented the sport to those that brought it out of the woods), yada yada yada.

While this sounds very ambitious to those who aren't familiar with a wiki-wiki, they grow very fast. Thousands of people can write content voluntarily and simultaneously as a community. The real headache is finding several dozen copy editors to make it all legible.

Visit en.wikipedia.org for an example of the scale I'm thinking of.

[Wes Janson]

I'm thinking of a hierarchal database, similar to Wikipedia or Yahoo!, with a general purpose dictionary section (explain industry terms, pb'er slang, etc.), a product glossary (illustrated history back to the original Crosman oil based markers), company histories/personalities (from the people that invented the sport to those that brought it out of the woods), yada yada yada.

I think you've summed up more or less exactly what it needs. Obviously, we want a main search on the front page that accesses all entries in all categories for easy searching. Beyond that, I can see sub-sections for slang, people, markers, companies, paint, gear, and probably other things I've forgotten. A visual diagram of all markers made, organized by year in a descending or horizontal order, would be very, very nice (and relatively simple). Beyond the dictionary, I could see there being a section of tips. Think of the moderation system used at www.bash.org : everyone has one vote, up or down. In that manner, you could collect the most pertinent and useful tips all in one spot, in a constantly growing database.
Forums need not be elaborate or numerous, just two or three for basic purposes. A links page is necessary, perhaps multiple pages: one for companies, one for teams, one for players/misc.
Personally, I see no need to try to steal traffic from www.pbreview.com . There should be no need for reviews, no need for ratings. Simple definitions. Information would be submitted either by a small group of trusted and knowledgeable AOers, or else open to all visitors, but unposted until moderated by one the same said group. There are two ends to fear: having too little information because the submitters are too few, and having too much garbage thrown into the system by malicious or ignorant posters.

[Grasshopper]

Great idea! Whatever happens with it, make sure it's simple and nice lookin'.

[Fixion]

Well, whois (or better-whois) will tell us who actualy bought the name. Anyways, I can help with the serverside stuff (eg. apache/php/mysql/linux), programing, and html. I'm also pretty good at that Photoshop thingy and that Imageready thingy.

Edit: should have read ALL the previous posts .

Edit 2: I may be able to provide a server and possibly a fat pipe.

[yeahthatsme]

i'd be willing to help with posting/moderating or something, watching for double posts and what-not...or any other help thats needed...

[Wes Janson]

Me has PS/Illustrator skills/programs, and I'm willing to be a moderator.