Now that the forum has had a makeover – and is much improved – I’d like to suggest that the wiki has some TLC.
A few ideas how it could be improved:
Deleting the spam
Half the pages on the wiki are now spam. I’ve grouped them into a Bilge category – 115 pages to date, out of 212 total. They’re not really doing any harm I suppose, but the All pages page shows how cluttered it’s getting.
A few weeks ago, there was also a burst of new, clearly spam-related user accounts created. Which didn’t then appear to do anything. Oddness.
Stopping spam
Not really sure how successful anti-spam measures can be. We have a wiki at work, but it’s internal so spam isn’t really an issue.
Mediawiki manual discusses various ways of Combating spam. I suspect that no method, even in combination, is infallible, but could reduce the chance of the wiki being a spammer target.
More administrators
Just as the forum is benefiting from an array of moderators, I think the wiki would benefit from having more administrators. Having another 1 or 2 would help with deleting spam pages and spam users, and with other stuff that has slightly cryptic descriptions but is probably useful (!)
If there can be more administrators, I’d like to nominate RobJ.
Images
The wiki would really benefit from pictures. For example, images of hardware would help to show what Rajahal’s recommended builds look like, or what certain components look like, while annotated screenshots of the web interface would be really useful to new users.
It may be that it’s not wise to allow all users to upload images, due to the potential for spam abuse. But perhaps a few users, in addition to administrators, could be given upload rights.
Updated homepage
There was a comment from Tom a while ago about the GUI being important because it's the face of unRAID.
Equally, the wiki is how unRAID documentation is presented to the world, and at the moment its homepage is a bit dry and unappealing. Could do with a refresh.
A rather more elegant equivalent is the Networked Media Tank Wiki. Am not necessarily suggesting that the unRAID wiki copies this look or approach – there may be other wiki ways that are even better. Would be very interested to see them if so.
If the homepage is updated, it would still be important to be clear what is ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’.