I was looking through the Ramblethread, and anyone who was in there four years probably doesn't but might remember the idea of a pixel art wiki for consolidating all the kinds of things we talk about in critique, which was decided against at the time for several reasons.
But it might be worth it.
As long as I've been around, which isn't as long as a lot of people, there's never been one reliable place to get information. Over the last couple of days/weeks I've seen maybe twenty people try to explain banding on separate occasions in separate places. There are a lot of great tutorials, but none of them have everything, and what they do have is all one perspective.
Basically I think it's about time this happened.
Ideally, it would have two things-
Technical things like the mechanics behind techniques, color theory, and more general knowledge stuff like old console restrictions,
and-
Subjective explanations of techniques and theories, preferably with multiple perspectives. Naturally, and this is what this forum is built on, the best way to learn is by getting a lot of varied and unique input.
So on the hypothetical dithering page you'd have-
Dithering
This is the definition of dithering and other things about it.
Sub Header
Person 1: Here are some things about dithering I've learned.
Person 2: This is how I use dithering to buffer shades.
Person 3: This is how I dither to add texture.
And so on.
This thread posted itself early so I'll edit in the rest of what was meant to be here.
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And that's done)
As far as running it, what could work-
-Having two different types of contributors, public editors who can do all the typical wiki things, and pre-approved VIPs who would be the source of the detailed explanation. As far as what it would take to be one of them, I couldn't say, but it would definitely try to avoid being too exclusive.
-Wikia gives each wiki a dedicated forum. Being able to discuss articles was one of the big concerns in the Ramblethread, so maybe having a forum thread dedicated to each page (which would be linked to in the page) could take care of that side. What I would even do is have particularly well-written discussion from the thread be put up on the page, and going along with that first point that might be a way for a user to become one of those VIPs.
EDIT: The pages also have their own Talk section that I somehow missed until now, so it can be split into discussion of the page itself in the Talk section and discussion of the content in the forum.
-With relatively strict control over editing and separating the two types of content, moderating should be a pretty easy job of just making sure no one screws with it. At least while it's not too populated.
And there would be the obligatory tutorial dump, less educational pages on certain games, etc.