Compiling and installing Wifi driver

[stuartiannaylor]

Not sure why there isn't more community input to the Wiki.
The current wiki is extremely sparse and much of the forum is lost in time, like forums do.

Collaboration could assist the few in many areas and it is a shame that doesn't seem to be employed.

The state of the wiki will be remedied in time. But sparse ?

Yeah the great info that has been discussed in the community has been of great quality and quantity and some of it has stickies.
A huge array of topics have been discussed and I have been learning along the way by reading the forum.
Problem is much in the forum is lost in time and there is an absolute lack of forum references in the wiki, which prob should be converted to better looking wiki entries when there is time.

The Rock64 has a singular page, infact huge long hard to navigate singular pages seems to be the default.
I am guessing some people have took pride wearing certain hats whilst forgetting what a powerful tool collaboration and shared workload can be.
Even oDroid has a more comprehensive wiki, but if you ever want to get to the A+ Class of opensource then the information that makes a product is actually just as important, maybe more especially in maker/opensource environs.

Really the forum is lacking one hugely important mechanism which is a community feedback metric, post vote or like as that would be a quick and easy way to evaluate what is of importance. Value to the community.
That should be used to build up a wiki as the community and product grows.

Ayufan should definitely be able to edit the wiki and create pages linking to github as it would be mutually beneficial to stop repetitive queries.
Its so long ago that I used mediawiki that I can not remember how the permissions nesting works and if users should be just allowed to create entries on there user page before being added to the main wiki.
I mention Ayufan as there are a couple of extremely knowledgeable community members who are compiling and testing and tweaking and they have to share info an collaborate so why not allow them a shared section of the wiki for community images and compiling.
Whilst they are doing there stuff with very little overhead they could be creating a really comprehensive wiki as they go along and collaborate.
This is mutually beneficial as it will stop a series of repetitive compiling questions.

Yeah the wiki is extremely sparse to what it could be and if you want to have a look at some good wiki's look at Arch Linux as I love that distro because its Wiki is A+++ its just tremendous and why its such a good distro.

The lost in time river of information that is a forum is a really bad why to present information, but its a great tool to initialize and kickstart content and get community feedback and collaboration.
The hardware info, maker bodges from markus also deserve wiki entries as you can not continue to create stickies as it will just make an unreadable forum as many actually are.

So to conclude yes the wiki is sparse, too much great info is retained in the forum and the forum lacks a peer review method from the community and at a guess wiki permissions are too few with little nesting.