From: father.vivian.oblivion@saintalfonzospancakebreakfast.com   
      
   Right men, pay attention.   
      
   Historically, there are three text documents loosely associated with   
   this ng:   
      
   1. The BR FAQ - a FAQ dedicated to the film and lots more besides.   
   Occasionally posted as a text document on the ng, and lives as a HTML   
   and/or/nand/nor text document on the brmovie.com website.   
      
   2. The ChaaarFAQ - a document describing the netiquette to be observed   
   when posting to AFBR. Occasionally posted as a text document on the ng,   
   and sometimes used by Fremen as a killing word.   
      
   3. The Beginner's Guide to AFBR - a document detailing some of the   
   history, in-jokes and humour that this fine ng has spawned. Occasionally   
   posted as a text document on the ng whenever my restraining order allows   
   me back on a computer.   
      
   There are, of course, myriad other documents (the music FAQ, the   
   multi-script, the encyclopedia inter alia) which also live on   
   brmovie.com, available for interested parties to peruse, but it's the BR   
   FAQ that concerns me.   
      
   Basically, the BR FAQ has fallen somewhat out of date. Its nominal   
   owner, Lukas "Blame Magnet" Marimbatron, occasionally threatens to sort   
   it out, but since the release of the Final Cut, this task has become   
   less of a tidy-up and more of a major re-write.   
      
   So, I have a cunning plan...   
      
   Why don't we turn the FAQ into a Wiki?   
      
   The more I think about it, the better it seems. It means that those   
   people with the time and energy to update the wiki can do so, and we're   
   not dependent on one person to make all the changes. The changes can be   
   made little by little, there's no requirement for a 'big bang'.   
   Furthermore, the text-based format of the FAQ was great when keeping   
   Mosiac running long enough with a 14.4 kbps PPP connection was nigh on   
   impossible, but these days I think we can all manage browser-based   
   activity, and a Wiki would be a good way to organise the information.   
      
   We would, of course, need someone to host the wiki site - but given the   
   number of folks here with their own websites etc. I'm sure we can work   
   that out. Furthermore, I would suggest we have a council of tribal   
   elders who have editorial control over the wiki to prevent vandalism and   
   to ensure that the wiki is as factual and balanced as we can make it.   
   That sort of detail we can thrash out later on.   
      
   So, what do you say? Does it twist your Mellorman, or merely spook you   
   upside your head? Discuss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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