+1

I love the Wiki option on boards and would like to see it on FT.

+1 This would a huge improvement!

It's become a major spam fest, although real information is thin of the ground. The official pages are not updated much.

They don't link to the recent changes page, but if you check it (don't post the link here), you'll see loads of spam pages. Why the spammers bother, I don't know, since Mediawiki uses nofollow. But even the main page has a slew of spam links at the bottom.

Too bad, as I'd love to use the wiki for posts.

+1 for wiki post. It could probably cut some of the deal threads posts by at least 50%

Any updates or plans for adding wiki/summary post to each thread?
Sorry to bring up an old thread but I really wish to this feature on FT.
TIA

Wikiposts are active in a few forums now (AS, AA, BA, and possibly a couple of others) as part of a test, although they are currently only editable by moderators and ambassadors. I would expect it to get rolled out to a wider section of FlyerTalk and more users soon, although I don't know what "soon" is.

You probably aren't aware of this TalkBoard Topics thread from last year:

An announcement at The Gate was mentioned in that thread as well.

I don't know there are test fora other than AA and AS though. IB really doesn't do such a good job making this beta feature known neither does they keep the general membership informed about the progress.

Besides AS, AA & BA, LH M&M has it activated but not yet used, and ANA got a pilot where an unmoderated forum has the wiki post feature activated for the ambassador. An example:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/all-n...er-thread.html

We have now enabled the ability for all FTers who have been registered for 90 days and have posted 90 times to create and add to wiki posts. Please help us make information easier to find by contributing in this way.

Carol
Community Director

Here's a shoutout to alex_b whom I think might be the first member at large to create a wiki.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...solidated.html

Thank you!

Milestone!

^

Finally, the wait is over!

Hope to see more collaborative love among us FTers in the form of wikiposts!

copied over from http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/talkb...l#post20831009

why does the wiki post have to show up on every page? it's very annoying when the post is large, like in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/credi...first-169.html

other forums just show it on page 1 - people know it's there when they need it, and don't have to skip down on every page.

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The minimize is good. It would be better if it still left it open on page 1 so that you didn't have to toggle it again when you needed it (and then remember to toggle it off again).

I also see "Wikipost Hide All" under our Options settings. It'd be nice to make this a tri-state option: hide, show, show only on page 1.

Found a bug
 

Just created a wikipost in this thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...c2-17-jun.html

On clicking 'Save changes' I ended up in a completely different thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...l#post20914337, which also has a (long-standing) wiki of its own.

No damage, as my new wiki was created successfully and the older thread was unchanged, but rather disconcerting :)

It seems to be reproducible by editing and saving again.

Yeah, it's a known bug, and it is supposed to be fixed in "the next version." I don't know if/when that new version is ever coming, though...