I haven't found any organisation page of moving any wiki content. There is nothing I've read about it. There is no set of guidelines. I haven't found any discussion about this either.

You see, there are reasons hardly anyone is moving data around. If you care to negate these reasons, you need to pinpoint these reasons first, and then they have to be solved. Screaming around at people that they have to contribute isn't the right way.

For example, its great you figured why the wiki is working bad. Now it has to be solved...

I finally get what exactly you meant by this. You seem to be thinking that the front page modification date has some sort of correlation to the quality of the wiki. Well, you do realize that the front page is never updated directly, right? All of its content is provided by templates. The templates get updated, not the front page.

I've got a comment concerning the Tablet Scene.

It needs more of you techincal people visiting it.

I've been posting a few questions, and there's really only two knowlegable people there that reply.

It's great to get some living answers. Though these one or two people don't know -everything-.

Searching is a joke. I can't tell you how many times I've searched, where the topic's last post was over nine months ago.


I try not to ask questions here at ITT because they're all your average newbie questions.

I've got my place where I invest my time, Tablet Scene is not one of them. Besides, many have made it clear enough that my presence there would not be appreciated.

GA you can come by you just have to be nice

If more technical people visited it.... it would be itT....

I'm with GA on this one.. i don't need to be checking and re-checking my posts to make sure they are "tablet scene acceptable".

You almost left a forum because people suggested that you learn to fish instead of throwing fish at you?

My guess is that about 95% of people who post here with questions HAVE searched for the answers. If this is true, the overwhelming percentage of people who are being asked to search are being insulted.

Also, the anti-newpost strategy has had wonderful success here. People would rather add on to a thread that doesn't even fit their topic rather than risk being pilloried for starting a new thread when one already existed. So we get the rolling-in-the-aisles-with-laughter exaggeration of not starting new threads -- threads that are hundreds of messages long, on combinations of subjects, with the posters knowing for sure that they won't be criticized for piling on.

If it wasn't for essential posters like Texrat we'd have quite a problem, but he always manages to quietly correct things so they stay on an even keel.

My guess is just the opposite. I'll betcha MOST people (by far), especially newcomers, ask before searching. And of those who do search, I'll wager that a large number don't search efficiently and strategically. I can say that with reasonable confidence because (stealing your statistic here) 95% of my searches find what I want within the first 3 pages, and typically in the first page. I've stepped in to help users search on the 'net in other contexts and the vast majority of the time they have failed because they just flat don't understand search.

Of course, I've just set myself up for you to suggest we respond with searching tutorials instead of "hey, noob, hit the Search button!"

And was that last comment of yours sarcasm, geneven? My detector is on the fritz.

Oh, and 95% of all statistics are made up on the spot, ya know.

In my experience... people ask the question first in hopes someone will just "tell" them the answer instead of figuring it out for themself..It's simply "easier" to make you go fish for me than to fish for myself... and because people are kind hearted and don't want to be jerks they do it.. and are thus taken advantage of.. until they do it so long they become bitter and really becomes jerks.

Some of us like to keep our sanity . I come here to tinker with and make the most of my tablet. If I happen to help a few new guys along the way that is wonderful - and it makes me feel good... but I'm not about to be worried about whether everyone likes me or not... I've got attainable goals I need to work towards.