Help on content type

Chi — Sat, 01/11/2008 - 03:21
Posting Content types:
Wiki Pages - Wiki Pages are text based posts which allows everyone who has access to the post to be able to edit it.
Recommendations: Use this type of post when posting factual information, like say a recount of of an event.
Text - Text pages are similar to wiki pages in many ways but are not the same. Comments can still be made in relation to the post but the post itself can only be edited by yourself and not by everyone who has access to the post.
Recommendations: Anything with opinions and private views should be posted in here. For example, a testimony would be a type of text.
Event - An event page is like an alarm. Posted events can be found in the calendar and the function of this type of post is to inform its audience of something that is going on at a particular time.
Recommendations: Anything like an end of year party, or a movie in the holidays can be posted in the calendar so everyone can set aside that day for some fun.
Media - Media is the generalised specification of video and audio, and thus, those items should be posted under media. Please visit Create Media for details on how to post.
Recommendations: Awesome video like fitting 17 church buddies in one car? This is the place to go.
Picture - Unlike media, pictures are still frames of visual data. Uploading is different from that of media as you can upload the picture directly from your personal computer.
Recommendations: All those fun camp photos can be uploaded using this type.
Poll - This type of post is aimed at obtaining a consensus on a particular topic, or just to see what the varied opinions are on an issue. Readers can vote and their for an option and then can view the overall results to see trends.
Recommendations: A poll on "we should start CrossFire on time" will yield some very interesting results when compared to the actual starting time of CrossFire.
The greatest confusion is between texts and wiki's. They're both text based posts used for announcements, discussions, articles, references, talks, etc.
The question remains is why Wiki? Why would you want people to edit your post you might ask? Well its simple, take this page for instance. It was a combined effort by more than three people to create different parts of this page. Different people may have different things they feel necessary to add to this page. They may have discovered spelling errors which required fixing. Altogether, it allows content to be regularly updated and checked. You can edit this page right now!
So great things for Wiki's would be things like FAQ pages, Help Files, Crossfire Programs...
Wiki's also allow you to view all version of the wiki before and after it has been edited. If some ungodly person decides to sabotage the site, we can quickly just press "Revert Version" and it would go back to the same before it was destroyed.
Texts are more personal and may contain your personal experiences and thoughts that you might not want others to change. Most discussions should be posted as a story so the original question will not be modified by disagreeing parties.
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Q, how to post up follow up
Alice — Mon, 10/11/2008 - 00:07Q, how to post up follow up stuff on viv's program =(. sorry i am noob
uhh, what do you mean follow
Chi — Mon, 10/11/2008 - 22:47uhh, what do you mean follow up? There's a follow up section under crossfire programs, post it there?