While there are a few useful and organized threads in the forum, I've been thinking of taking some of the more useful but disorganized threads and recreating them in the wiki. The problem is, doing so would pretty much be a major copyright violation.

Is this something worth pursuing or a doomed cause from the start?

Personally I think it sounds like a good plan, I know pepoluan has made some steps toward this.

I too am frustrated by the enormous amount of information which is buried in rambling threads. The wiki should collate this information.

I'm not up on such things, but I would have said that any text posted to a forum is fair dibs really, unless the text has a copyright clause posted with it. As I say, that's just an opinion.

Good luck.

NB: My thread Frequently Asked Questions may be of some interest to you. I must admit I have not pursued it yet though.

I have been thinking about putting my thread on the wiki just haven't got aorund to it

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....38&#entry383038

I collected threads on the vinyl page cliveb and I have been working on. For now it is just an FAQ, but eventually the hope is to integrate that information with the rest of the page.

ie, you provide a separate structure and source of information in the wiki, and the forum threads fit into that structure.

I see internet and fora as publication tool, like magazines made from paper.
Once you have written something, it is published. Whether you set your copyright on it, it is copyrighted or not.

As HA has still a scientific & public approach, I assume that dealing here with published content should be done like in science,
you can use & cite published things, if you cite them, mark the citings clearly as being cited,
ie. mention the original author,
the most exact & best way would be, to add also the link to the original text.

If someone wrote here something and added a copyright mark to that text, you can ask him, if you can copy it under which conditions, or at least, point/link also to that original source.

I heard someone mentioning my name so I decide to investigate

No, it is definitely not a doomed cause! I take offense at that... :-|

As Synthetic Soul mentioned, I've started the attempt to wiki-fy some threads... not much progress right now due to much much much much workload...

Well anyways, I posted in a thread somewhere (been searching and can't quite find it again), the benefits of wikifying threads. One key point is that a wiki page is definitely the last edited factoid... compared with a thread. There may be multiple threads about a single topic, newer ones started by those who failed searching a relevant thread. The information becomes redundant, and at some point, conflicting.

Consolidating such threads into the wiki ensures that there will be one unique description for any topic.