Graphic Design Wiki

[carter the artist]

Okay, I have this idea, we need a wiki. I don't know much about using the wiki format, but am willing to learn, of course. I was thinking about it today, but we need a GD wiki, somewhere where designers can contribute to help the design community. We could even use it to reference to clients important questions that they may be unintentionally ignorant in.. ex.. "no, you cannot simply convert a bmp into vector, here's why check out this site's explanation, or ... I want to blow up my wallet picture to the size of a billboard, or what's a pms color?"

Just an idea.

So, I googled and couldn't find one.

Does anyone know if one exists or if it even has merit?

[kerrysmagicshirt]

what you mean wiki? like wikipedia?

yeah that would be a good idea - though i think it would need to be well written. What can be easily understood by the design community might seem like a foregn language for a client.

also what would/wouldn't be included. web? illustration? fine art? photography? product design? cad? mmm the list could be endless.

i think it's a great idea. Who's going to sart it off?

I did start writing an incept for the Pencil but i sounded way to geeky so i deleted it.

[Rehab]

I know nothing of what you speak

[vtwin_gary]

here's a start: www.bancomicsans.com

[carter the artist]

As I understand it, the wikipedia is a catalogue of terms, ideas, etc... defined by those who utilize it. They will add facts and figures and definitions and the community who utilizes it is the ones responsible for ensuring it's accuracy. They have offshot into seperate wiki communities and software is even available to turn your own server/computer into a wiki database, or make your own online..

It was just an idea.

[PrintDriver]

http://www.prepressure.com/dict/dicta.htm

[Rocketpig]

A design reference wiki is perhaps the greatest idea ever.

Now get to work on it, you scurvy bastards!

[typographics]

instead of directing these people to a third party site to answer these basic questions, why not simply explain it to them...when they ask? seems like that wouldnt go over very well.

"whats the difference between raster and vector?"

"here, go to this website and figure it out yourself!"

[EC]

I like the idea.

[PrintDriver]

The guy at Prepressure already has a damn good start.

As for the difference between Raster vs Vector and such, we already direct them out of the thread to our Resource section. Usually with a link.