[Aaron]

We do...

Care to help?

http://www.peakoil.com/wiki

What's a WIKI?

A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] or [ˈwiː.kiː][1]) is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content.[2] A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites, the first wiki (WikiWikiWeb) was developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s.[3][4] Wikis allow for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.[5] Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is one of the best known wikis

[ohanian]

what's wrong with

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

Let me guess, it's not written by peak oil nutcases.

[Aaron]

what's wrong with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil Let me guess, it's not written by peak oil nutcases.

Not a thing... Bitter much?

[steam_cannon]

what's wrong with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil

This is a good question with a long answer. The problem I see, wikipedia.com is very topic specific. It doesn't group enough other information related to peak oil. From what I see, this new peak oil wiki page groups peak oil, gas, uranium, coal, alternative energy...

In common usage the term "peak oil" involves many interconnected problems and not just an isolated theory. So perhaps the current Wikipedia article lacks the necessary scope for understanding the problem. Since much of peak oil discussion is about the interrelated effects of oil resource depletion, a page that brings together the whole energy picture seems like a good idea.

Also on the new page I would add a note to the top explaining this difference.

"Peak Oil is a problem that affects civilizations entire energy picture. The purpose of this page is to explain peak oil and to bring together subjects related to peak oil. Such as oil depletions impact on natural gas demand, coal reserve estimates, industrial metals, climate change (effects from burning dirtier fuels), economics impact to the petrodollar, scenarios such as global power shifts (Russia next/last superpower), mitigation and population."

You might want to edit out a few things in that opening paragraph, but you get the idea.

And I'm interested

[What_Went_Wrong]

Care to help?

I love Wikis and this is a great idea, would be a shame if this time next year it's no longer assessable, if you know what I mean..

[steam_cannon]

Care to help?

I love Wikis and this is a great idea, would be a shame if this time next year it's no longer assessable, if you know what I mean..

You mean because the site keeps running slower and slower? Hahaha

But yeah, I know what you mean. However, I'm hoping since the internet as a communication system was designed for surviving limited nuclear strikes, I'm thinking that the modern incarnation may be able to hold out though blackouts for at least a few years if those start ramping up. Sure our shaky electrical grid and peak gas should be enough to bring down much of the net, but I still think that's a few years off. Of course there are wild cards that could come into play, like economic collapse that could bring things down faster...

That would make a good forum topic "Will Blackouts bring down the net?"

I was surprised by the news of the 2003 Blackout in the US. An interesting question would be, how that effected the internet. Access by people and uptime for servers. Turns out the internet is very vulnerable to black outs...

"We find that Internet connectivity in the blacked-out region was far more seriously affected than has been
publicly revealed."
"Banks, investment funds, business services, manufacturers,
hospitals, educational institutions, internet service providers, and federal and state government units
were among the affected organizations.
The scale and duration of the Internet connectivity outages recorded during the blackout strongly
suggest that without additional investment in higher-quality interconnection and backup power at
its edges, the Internet will be in no shape to supersede the telephone network as the nation’s primary
communications infrastructure."
http://www.renesys.com/tech/presentatio ... ov03.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/yweh8k

Another article
http://tinyurl.com/2bsrow

Also makes me think that telephone infrastructure investments might be a good deal now and much more valuable in the future. (Like Railroads)

Printed or DVD version of forums?
Another thought besides wiki, some people might like a CD or printed book version of much of this site. Like some of the planning forums. I know I print & bind some of the excellent posts people have written. Maybe other people would be interested in that too.