Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 06:39:25 -0700
Reply-To: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Call for articles! VanagonWiki.net
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A nice big article on replacing the viscous couplings on the Synchro was
just added by RainierW (name's not ringing a bell).
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR
mordo typed:
> Thanks to you all for all of that. Can't wait to see more content
> accumulate.
>
> cheers.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@gmail.com>
> Date: Aug 7, 2007 8:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Call for articles! VanagonWiki.net
> To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
>
> updated logo to be less copyrighteable >:D
>
> sudhir
>
> On 8/7/07, Nunya Business <bulletheadx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nice logo. Who's the defendant?
>>
>> Cya,
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> On 8/7/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> VanagonWiki.net is now up and running. Sudhir banged it together with
>>> some spare parts he had in the basement, I reckon. I dumped in some
>>> rudimentary initial structure. Content-free, as is typical of the stuff
>>> I write.
>>>
>>> And you'll find a logo that is a lawsuit waiting to happen (heh).
>>>
>>> It's waiting for your help.
>>>
>>> If you're some kind of expert on, say, the care and feeding of the
>>> Vanagon air conditioning system, or know how to troubleshoot a
>>> non-starting Vanagon pretty good, then it's darn easy to register with
>>> the wiki and start figuring out how to add pages (that said, the help
>>> files are fairly opaque to me, I just winged it).
>>>
>>> You could just find that gem of knowhow that you posted here three
>>> months ago that got that fellow's engine started and email it to
>>> VanagonArticles@gmail.com and some underpaid geek will post it on the
>>> site for you.
>>>
>>> Also, if you find an article which you consider to be inaccurate, or
>>> unclear, you can edit it.
>>>
>>> VanagonWiki is meant to be on-purpose, there are no Fryedays. Mess up an
>>> article or create some page about your pet political peeve or favorite
>>> band and the dark lords of the wiki have the power to find your house
>>> and egg the $hit out of it.
>>>
>>> That said, who wants to start typing in the section headers from the
>>> Bentley for
>>>
>>>
>>>
> http://vanagonwiki.net/index.php/Tech_Pages_organized_by_Bentley_number_scheme
>>> .
>>>
>>> (An idea lifted from John Meeks' excellent Vanagonauts.com site)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>>> KG6RCR
>>>
>
>
> --
> mordo
> 1990 Carat
>
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