On Saturday, April 12, 2014 8:13:46 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote:
But I wonder if a wiki approach to accident documentation would improve the number of lessons learned. Is it time to try this with the analysis of glider accidents?

Here is an explanation of how the editing of Wikipedia works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Editing

I'm thinking that this wiki should be private and perhaps require a cookie that shows that contributors and readers are logged into the members-only area of the SSA website. It might be best to otherwise be completely independent of the SSA website in order to avoid any hint of SSA official endorsement of the opinions expressed on the wiki. Likewise the contributions should be pseudo-anonymous (though little is truly anonymous on the internet) in order to lower the inhibitions of contributors. That and other measures should relegate the credulity of the discussion to that of 'rumor expressed on the internet' so that the discussion is useless to lawyerly types that might otherwise try to use the information to pursue lawsuits (and/or criminal prosecutions).

The wiki would be 'educational and entertainment purposes only'. We would engage knowledgeable moderators to keep the quality high and the recriminations low.

(To clarify for those less familiar with how the internet works... I'm proposing that we set up a 'private wiki' on the internet that functions in a fashion similar to wikipedia, but it would not be part of wikipedia. It would only be accessible to SSA members.)

Discussions of accidents on RAS and other forums could be mined and summarized as content for the wiki.

Another possibility that might be a good place to start would be to set up a private sub-reddit on Reddit.com to have a more back and forth structured discussion. For example see http://www.reddit.com/r/MH370/search..._sr=on& t=all

If you're unfamiliar with reddit, the posts and comments are upvoted/downvoted by readers to sort the popular from the unpopular. Some subreddits are also moderated, and some are private to a specific group of contributors.