User:Asynchron

Hello! I am asynchron. I live in the Washington DC area and am the happy owner of a 2001 Proton since 2018.

VehiCROSS Wiki Reboot
As my time allows, I am attempting to revitalize this wiki. Here is some info on what I have in mind.

Why?
First of all, what is my reason for this effort? What will this wiki have that other resources don't?

My hope is that this wiki will be a more organized archival counterpart to more social-focused platforms like the Vehicross Facebook group and the vehicross.info forums. Those platforms excel at supporting active discussions, but finding definitive reference info can be very difficult if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. In addition, as the usage of web forums wanes, there are increasing issues with spam, broken image links, and the threat that all the content could become inaccessible if the maintainers don't find it worthwhile anymore. The curation of content is much easier as well -- on those platforms, important info sometimes hides in several pages of replies, and/or in one of countless posts on the topic. In a wiki, this information can be consolidated on one page, with updates and edits made to the information where it sits.

What the wiki will contain
There is a lot of info out there about the VehiCROSS, both official and unofficial. I hope the wiki will contain the important highlights of both, giving owners a unified resource for reference. Here are some of the topics I'd love to see covered:


 * History and other general info
 * Technical information and specifications
 * Procedures for common repairs, both official and unofficial
 * Modification and customization info
 * Info and history about the community of owners
 * Pretty much anything else that's noteworthy and supports happy VX ownership!

Guidelines
For the wiki to be a high-quality, useful archive of this info, some guidelines will need to be established and followed. This will probably be a gradual process, but some basics are:


 * Information should be objective, not based on personal opinions, anecdotes, or theories. Independent research may be allowed if its source is clearly stated (example: electrical measurements of a known-good sensor collected by an owner due to an official spec not being given in the service manual).
 * Along the same lines, noteworthy commercial products can be listed for reference, but don't veer into advertisements or endorsements. Limited exceptions might be made when there is a specific relevance to the VX that's broadly agreed upon, e.g., what trim restoration products are known to work well on the cladding (not things like "who makes the best oil filter").
 * References/citations are not mandatory, but highly encouraged and appreciated where possible.
 * Well-composed photos and diagrams are also very appreciated.
 * General best practices for wikis apply: organize page content consistently, link to relevant pages when their topic comes up in content, categorize pages, make good use of templates, etc.
 * As on all wikis, there is a balance to strike between making page topics too general or too specific. If they're too general, pages get very long, difficult to navigate and read, and difficult for editors to keep organized. It also becomes harder to find specific info using the search box. If they're too specific, there can be an explosion of short pages, making overall organization of the wiki much more difficult, causing more dilemmas about where new content should be added, and making related pieces of information that a reader might need become "fragmented" across multiple pages. Contributors should always look for and read pages related to a topic, then judiciously decide whether to add to an existing page or create a new one. If they choose the latter, they should make a best effort to categorize their page, add links to related pages, and link other related pages to it where appropriate.