[pHaestus]

Ok guys in another thread we have been kicking around the idea of having a Wikipedia-style repository for water cooling information. What I envision this becoming is a sort of easily searchable, easily assessible front end for all the GOOD information that is out there on the web. Or in other words it's basically a way to take the good posts and links that are already stickied in forums across the web and convert them to a format that people will actually see and read and use. The noblest of goals.

What we seem to be looking at here is a user-submitted and group edited compendium. It is a HUGE endeavor when you think about the breadth of the topic. What we will end up with in essence is a web-based water cooling textbook.

Joe has offered to code this up and implement it, and so we have to come up with a list of features for him to implement. I imagine a system where content is submitted in a textbox, edited for content and for readability by the overseers of that section of the compendium, cross-linked with other content for easier indexing and searching, and then made visible to all. Keywords will be a must.

The way this should work if implemented properly is that the higher tiers of information should be readable and understandable without a lot of technical education (think executive summary here) but with links embedded that take you to more detailed results. So people can learn as they go as much as they want. There should also be extensive citations and references to engineering and technical specs offsite when it's possible.

Now this will require active contributions from many people to succeed, and a lot of editing and fact checking from a smaller number of people. And it isn't the sort of thing that can be done in a week or two; this is a BIG SCALE project.

Anyway this would be the time to tell me that my vision is way off base or that the concept itself is a bad one and make suggestions and changes. My thought is that it would be great to have good people from other sites involved: RoboTech, MYV65, Cathar, ??others??

Should we start with an outline? How big of a scope?

Theory
-Pressure/flow
-Heat transfer

Waterblock Construction
-CAD
-Machining
--equipment
--usage/tips/tricks

Testing
-Goals
-Methods
-Equipment
-Data acquisistion/noise/automation?
-Results from mfgrs and reviewers

Implementation
-Matching components for a system
-Avoiding leaks
-Optimizing your loop
--noise/size/performance/cost
--removing unnecessary restrictions
--troubleshooting poor performance

Components?
-Pumps
-Radiators
-Waterblocks

Thoughts? These would all be extensively linked together (so in the implementation you are kicked back to theory sections for WHY removing 90 degree fittings on the pump is a good idea etc).

I would think that culling forum threads and stickies for gems, reposting them in a single, permanent, SEARCHABLE location would in itself be a good project. This would go far beyond that.