Some of you may know that the database has a 'collaboration' area (which is currently unused) where folks would be encouraged to add data for their particular state or county. That area would point to our wiki, and would be a central collection for data that isn't ready for the database, such as frequencies or talkgroups under research, as well as other kinds of data that is currently being moved from the database such as 10 codes, maps, and so on.
The other source of data is the wiki itself. We have a large number of articles and other items with a location specific focus - everything from state-related wiki articles, other web pages, mailing lists, online scanners, apparatus photos and more. While the majority of the focus is on the US, we also have some stuff for our Canadian friends.
It's much too large for 1 or 2 people - working part time - to handle in a timely fashion (the Chief hasn't given me a deadline - yet). I have considered simply linking and anchoring to the various articles as they are, but the sheer volume is too much - we'd be creating a spaghetti rats nest of links all over the place which would over time become a nightmare to maintain.
What is needed here are folks that can gather up all the data for a given state or set of states. All the data related to a given state will need to be gathered into a single page (or pages). Right now, just copying it will do nicely. We'll wipe the data once it's been validated and everything goes live, but not before.
For example, if you are doing the state of Illinois, gather up ALL the information for Illinois into a single page or pages, depending on whether there is any county-related information (in which case, each county should get its own page). It's very tedious, I agree, but it's pretty much the only way to do this. Keep an eye out for any new development in your state's area, because that data too will need cataloging. Keep the page or page(s) you develop until it's called for (the database moves are going on now - and I've got enough to do with other things...) Please send me a note (at
ka3jjz@netscape.com) if you are willing to help, and what state(s) you'd like to tackle (we have data, in some form or other, for 44 states - and not every area has the same number of links. Some have more, others much less). I will keep a spreadsheet with users and what state(s) are being handled and coordinate it from here.
This is not going to be a small project - depending on the amount of data, it could take some time to copy all this data and consolidate it. But the more people I get, the smaller the job will become (for you guys anyway).
Here is the list of links - as the Mailing Lists article has the largest number of states, we'll use that for our 'master list' for the time being...leave anything alone that has a regional focus for now (we will have to tackle it, but there's LOTS less of those than we have for the state stuff)
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/United_States
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index..._Mailing_Lists
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index...gory:Apparatus
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index..._Organizations
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Live_Scanners
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Canada
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index...Special_Events
73 Mike