What do you guys think about expanding the site to include non-TI calculator info?
I have no problem with it, although I've only ever been involved with the TI scene, I think it would be good to include Casio, HP, etc. if they don't already have their own equivalent Wiki type site :)
IMHO it should remain about calculators, but I think it should also include HP, Casio and maybe even Sharp graphing calculator sites info. I don't know how such info should be laid out, though. For Casio, most sites were hosted on Earthforge so whether we can find info about them would depend of if Earthforge sites are still publicly available in the wayback machine (which is no longer a guarantee with their robots.txt glitch)
EDIT: Lol with this forum public again, it looks like I can add the post statistics to the stats page :P
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I have also only been involved with the TI community, but I have always been curious about the other calculator communities (Casio, Sharp, HP). I did some cursory research, and it appears that the other calculator communities are quite small in comparison to the TI community and that there is no equivalent wiki community site.
I am not exactly sure how to best organize the different calculator information. Perhaps placing each of the other calculator-based pages in their own calculator namespace is the cleanest way to go — for example, casio:casiocalc.org, hp:hpcalc.org, etc. I could also create a separate Wikidot wiki for each calculator — Casio Story, Sharp Story, HP Story — but I don't think that is really necessary. However, it might be good to register those wikis and redirect them to TI Story just so somebody else can't.
I believe that there was a short period of time in mid-2008 where the Casio community was bigger than the TI community, but that was short-lived. Something particular about the Casio community is that about 80% of it is French-speaking.I'm thinking there should just be one wiki, but perhaps split by calculator brands as you mention above rather than separate sites.
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I just registered all of the <calculator>story wikis, so that part is done. I'm going to focus my efforts on documenting the Casio community first, and might reach out to a few people in the Casio community for help. I also noticed that the Casio community has a large French component. Why is that?
I think back in the 90's the French market was about half Casio and half TI, and it took a while before TI finally starts agressively promoting their products outside USA. In France they had a lot of opportunities, but Casio calcs still remain widely used, especially the monochrome models.
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