Thanks Simon for your comments!
I totally agree on that.
I think that the administrators are making a static web page, not a wiki, with all these reinforcements.
The power of a wiki is that even if someone does vandalism it can be easily reverted and doing harm is much more time consuming than reverting changes.
Considering that wiki is closed to all OpenGL forum members, I think that is enough security! And remember, the more people you have involved in the wiki the more they will protect the pages, and the more the content will grow!
There are many intelligent people on this forum that know many openGl techniques. Why not take benefit from this?
Even some do not know about EVERYTHING most are specialized in different topics, and many more can help with different implementations.
Come guys lets change this! Let’s make our community grow by making this wiki a succesful project!
Imagine being able to implement any technique you want by just looking at our wiki?
Now a days, when I need to learn something I have to go to the internet and read more than 10 tutorials from different authors to gather the best of them, and make my own improved implementation. I also struggle learning which tutorials are old or new, as many authors present different (and outdated) implementations of different effects. It´s very difficult to get to know which are old and which are the new techniques when dwelving into intermediatte/advanced topics (realistic soft shadows and lighting, water simulation, etc).
The wiki could rapidly and effectively solve this problem. Just a comment from a user saying, “this is old, use this other technique that is faster and …” could solve all this questions and serve a primary reference.
Today the wiki is no more good than a static and incomplete page, and I think that if we change this we can make our community grow bigger and stronger! And learn more from each other specialized knowledge!
Readers take part on this… What do you think?
And board administrators please comment, since without you no action can be taken, what can you propose?
I hope this post ends in a benefit for the community, so let`s start discussing this idea, and/or proposing new ones.
Cheers!
Rod