mvs wrote:ExcitableBoy wrote:Bob Sihler wrote:Still against wiki-style, but the ideas from mrchad9 and MoapaPk about a highly visible corrections section are good ones.
I think some type of peer contribution for route/mountain pages would be a good thing.
It would work like this. A climber makes a basic page, as rich as a Gangolf page or somewhat poorer. Any registered user can edit it. Full history is preserved. The owner can revert edits and has the right to report offenders to the elves. If his creation is subject to abuse he can give up with the wiki approach and revert to the standard authentication system.
That sounds worth trying, much better than the free-for-all wiki approach people sometimes seem to advocate. In my case, I would be less concerned about someone updating information and more concerned about someone altering or deleting my Overview; I often put a lot of effort into the Overview in order to bring the mountain to life, so to speak, and some of me goes into that. Leave my Overview alone and give me the ability to undo changes that are bad or incorrect, and I'd give it a try.