Building the Megadrum

[Beamtreetaker]

Generelly, that's a good idea. But...: Personally, what I don't like about wikis is their nature of always being in a work-in-progress state and most project wikis I know appear quite incomplete. A full pdf document I think would encourage writers to thoroughly deal with a specific topic. Also, putting forum links into a pdf is not a big problem.
And: The biggest advantage of a 'real' document, I think, is the possibility to print it out and read it in one pass.
What do others think? In the end it's a matter of taste, the main thing is that the content will be made!

[jamalpiper]

Generelly, that's a good idea. But...: Personally, what I don't like about wikis is their nature of always being in a work-in-progress state and most project wikis I know appear quite incomplete. A full pdf document I think would encourage writers to thoroughly deal with a specific topic. Also, putting forum links into a pdf is not a big problem.
And: The biggest advantage of a 'real' document, I think, is the possibility to print it out and read it in one pass.
What do others think? In the end it's a matter of taste, the main thing is that the content will be made!

I like the pdf idea (more than my wiki now) but the only "issue" I have, which is also the main reasoning behind the wiki, is that it can't easily be amended and added to.

Maybe a sort of compromise?

Have each pdf guide have its own topic and if someone adds something really worth mentioning to it have a sort of link section on the first post that one can easily click to get to the post detailing that amendment. The same with if a design is based off the work of another post, etc. A sort of Bibliography/Table of Contents.

Saves me scrolling through 5 pages of searches to find how to implement rotary encoders (a function new megadrummers might not even know about).

[jamdat]

I think a combination is good in the sense that a wiki can be more of a technical repository for information (such as what function this part serves, what it does, alternatives...) and a pdf guide is more of a "snapshot" of the MegaDrum and can be used by somebody to build a certain version and model that has been verified to work. A wiki is usually a "latest and greatest" thing and thus always seems to be "in progress".

My project will be on the forum (similar to Japi's) because in previous projects, I have found it helpful to see the progress, the builder's questions, member's answers, and how the builder resolved the issue.