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Maybe we could set up some kind of Chicken Wiki on the site. I'd love to see that!
It could replace the breeds section because it would specifically be about Chicken breeds. We'd be able to put pages up for things like wormers, waterers, and all that stuff that specifically are about chickens.
If you look on Wikipedia now, you see that almost every breed of chicken has a crummy page with nearly useless information about them.
We'd be able to put up real, legitimate information on each breed such as size, location, history, aggressive level, variations, were each variation is found. We could even include a whole section for crosses.
Best of all, you won't have to make the pages. Instead, the whole community can. Or you can make it where people have to have above 500 posts or 1000 posts or whatever. 800 seems fair.
That would be another plus for Golden Feather members, too! Maybe they'd have instant editing access no matter how many posts the have.
It would drive people to the site because web crawlers love Wiki's.

What do you say?
I've always wanted a one-stop place for chickens. I'm sure others are searching for one too.
 
A wiki was something we considered 2.5 years ago but we decided it wasn't right for this community.

Right now we're using an even better system for collecting and organizing breed information. As the Database gets populated with information we'll be able to present it in some really cool ways!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=205856
 
How did I miss this?!?!
The Wiki idea was this same idea but we could also have other information.
I didn't know if you thought about it or not. Just wanted to suggest.
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It is a great idea, and would be perfect if everyone knew how to use a wiki. In our experience we've got a good number of people who have great chicken knowledge, but maybe aren't to the technical level to use a wiki, especially when you also include the multiple editors concept.

This is why we created the BYC Page Creator tool (which tends to be pretty user friendly and now the BYC Breed Database System (which is super easy to use).

Now, anyone (and everyone) should be able to submit information to BYC!

Again, a wiki would be a great feature, and maybe down the road we can upgrade our systems to be more similar to a wiki, but for now we need members to use the existing tools and submit their pages for inclusion onto the site.
 

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