# Do we need a wiki?

**URL:** <https://forum.opencyphal.org/t/do-we-need-a-wiki/497>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 31, 2019, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.opencyphal.org/t/do-we-need-a-wiki/497 "2019-05-31T07:49:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![pavel.kirienko](https://forum.opencyphal.org/user_avatar/forum.opencyphal.org/pavel.kirienko/32/9_2.png) [@pavel.kirienko](https://forum.opencyphal.org/u/pavel.kirienko)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.opencyphal.org/t/do-we-need-a-wiki/497/1 "2019-05-31T07:49:39Z")

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Do we want a publicly editable wiki for centralized storage of all UAVCAN-related information excepting library documentation (because library docs are to be kept close to their sources)? There have been independent efforts such as creating a list of UAVCAN-enabled hardware or developing a new GUI tool (I’m not talking about Yukon here) which may remain undiscovered by most of the UAVCAN users because such information is spread out over a large variety of sources (such as this forum or GitHub repositories). With a wiki we could either fix that ourselves or at least provide users with a possibility of managing entries relevant to their activities themselves.

A downside of having a wiki is that it’s yet another source to maintain and keep up-to-date.

_Poll ([view on site](https://forum.opencyphal.org/t/do-we-need-a-wiki/497/1))_

(if we decided to go forward with the wiki, what wiki engine should we use? **wiki.js** comes to mind, anything else?)

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**Author:** ![scottdixon](https://forum.opencyphal.org/user_avatar/forum.opencyphal.org/scottdixon/32/39_2.png) [@scottdixon](https://forum.opencyphal.org/u/scottdixon)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.opencyphal.org/t/do-we-need-a-wiki/497/2 "2019-05-31T21:11:21Z")

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I’m not sure how to vote on this. On the one hand it’s an easy yes since there’s no harm in it but on the other I wonder what utility it has given that we have this forum, the UAVCAN website, and documentation for various software projects. I worry that this could cause confusion where all wiki pages will look like they are written by the UAVCAN maintainers since it would be a UAVCAN wiki. I would rather just create pages on our site where we think documenting external efforts would be beneficial.

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**Author:** ![pavel.kirienko](https://forum.opencyphal.org/user_avatar/forum.opencyphal.org/pavel.kirienko/32/9_2.png) [@pavel.kirienko](https://forum.opencyphal.org/u/pavel.kirienko)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.opencyphal.org/t/do-we-need-a-wiki/497/3 "2019-05-31T21:25:53Z")

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> [@scottdixon](#):
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> I’m not sure how to vote on this.

Your argument seems to belong to the category “no for other reasons”.