Re: st: re: a wish list for Statalist

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 02:57 PM 1/3/2007, Jeremy Miles wrote:
> Starting a Wiki is very straightforward:
> http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia
>
> There is an SPSS wiki there:
> spss.wikia.com
The wiki idea is intriguing and could be done regardless of any 
changes in Statalist.  Having said that, I just looked at the SPSS 
wiki, and almost every link I clicked on said "You've followed a link 
to a page that doesn't exist yet."  (The Marvel Comics Wiki is kind 
of nice though!)  To make this idea fly, I suspect you either need

* A computer whiz kid grad student who'd rather work on web pages 
than his or her dissertation
* Somebody's 14 year old kid who'd be willing and able to get the shell set up
* Some startup effort by Statacorp

If somebody would get a bare bones wiki set up, perhaps others would 
be willing to submit sections on the programs they have written.  I'd 
be willing to do something on oglm and gologit2 (provided I could 
figure out how to do it!)

Incidentally, Stata does have a minimalist web page on 
Wikipedia.  People might consider fleshing it out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata


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