I can't seem to access the LQ wiki. Are the servers down? Anyone else experiencing this?

No, does not seem to work from here either.

I too cannot see to access the wiki. Getting a network error on my end.

I got this message a few minutes ago, but it seems to have gone off again:

LQWiki has a problem

Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

(Can't contact the database server: Lost connection to MySQL server during query (localhost))

I have to post the first post without an url. there it is...

http://lists.linuxquestions.org/pipermail/lqwiki-list/ doesn't work eather.

Hey Questy! Nice seeing you around here. lol
Fancy you showing up at a time like this. I was going to add some stuff to the Lin2Win equivs page.

I am a little wiki addicted lately. This is the opportunity to say that more people should participate. Try it out, this is fun !

Forums are nice, but it can sometimes be tedious to look for information there, reading through all pages of posts on numerous topics to get answers.

This is the essential quality of the wiki for me, no more waste of time answering to the same questions but instead improving each time on the answers. Organising content so that every one can quickly find an answer.

I am a firm believer that the wiki way of doing thing has a tremendous potential for Linux. Linux is faboulous, but it needs wikis to grow. Internet is a revolution, and wiki inside internet might be another one, in all domains.

You don't need to have been running Linux for 10 years to participate. If one person out of 50 that gets an answer here on those forums would go to the wiki to check out that the very answer he's been given can be found on the wiki and put it there if not... That would already be fabulous.

Go wiki some anwers !
Well when the server is up and running again of course

The same goes for people answering questions. If you are fed up of always answering the same questions, then begin to check that your answers are on the wiki. If you put it there then the wiki will improve and people will begin to ask more interesting questions.

Go wiki some anwers !

I am in complete agreement, Questy. It's almost like an epiphany stuck me. I was adding a little info one day, and I realized "OMG, this is like the liquid concentrate of help forums!".

You are absolutely right about no more wasted time searching through posts and threads. Instead, you get answers, and you get them right NOW.

Over the past couple weeks, just about every day I've been thinking wiki-wiki-wiki.

One reason I keep coming back here to the forums (besides essentially helping people out and pointing them to the wiki through my signature) is so I can find common things to put in the "Linux_Newbie_FAQ". Today I found another common Question to be added to it, but you'll have to wait and see.

The wiki is back up. Sorry for the downtime.

--jeremy

That's nice, thank you for letting us know Jeremy.