COD FMB documentation desperately needed

[Gamekeeper]

Originally Posted by salmo

The airwarefare.com knowledge base is all well & good, but there is virtually no information on the FMB there at this point in time.

People who are knowledgeable about the FMB need to contribute articles for it to grow. If you build it they will come

Are you interested in the FMB in general or basic mission building too?

Originally Posted by salmo

Also, a KB is not a FMB manual, it is megrely an ad-hoc collection of information snippits to be trawled through like everywhere else on this subject.

A KB is more easily trawled than a forum.

Forum:
Unstructured, chaotic
Items of interest not easily accessable
Search is fine, depending on users ability to phrase search term correctly and know what they are actually looking for!
Cannot always depend on accuracy of information in posts. Many posts made without proof, testing or review and over time become outdated or irrelevant.
Can you rely on the forum host to backup regularly?
Will the forum host provide support for 2 - 5 - 10 years without pruning or deleting posts?

AW Knowledge base:
Highly structured.
Articles sorted into specific topics & categories and well presented
Search has the usual limitations but is more effective as articles already more organised.
Easily edited.
Easily updated.
Relevant, reviewed content
Backed up daily
11 year track record of reliability.

The security comparisons may seem a bit chicken little but websites and forums have been lost before due to webmasters moving on or failing to backup databases, it happened recently with IL-2 DCG forums and early in IL-2 history with Sturmovik technica online FMB manual, IL-2 skins etc.

Forums are great for discussion and bouncing around ideas but the end result should be a KB if you want to have anything structured and user friendly for a newbie to a pro.

Originally Posted by salmo

Let's start compiling a comprehesive FMB manual. I don't much care where it is located, provided it covers all of the various FMB tabs, tick-boxes & setups etc.

As I mentioned we have a wiki ready and waiting for this purpose but it will need a team to run it effectively. I have been asking for support here for some time now but have seen little interest in developing something worthwhile. All the tools are there; powerful text editors, text, html, video anything you need. It only needs a few willing to cut the umbilical cord and wean themselves away from the forum and something great could be built.

If anybody is interested in writing for airwarfare.com let me know and I will update your membership to allow you to create, edit and post articles to the KB. A wiki would require a team, again please contact me if interested.