Purpose:

I've been looking to get EleHack.com on the road for a while now. I was looking at making a site for everything from basic circuits to interfacing sensors with microcontrollers, etc... Basically, building blocks for circuits, so if someone needed to (for example) look up how to make a 555 timer circuit, there would be a page for that, or how to interface an LCD display to an Arduino, there would be a page for that. Even things like how to interface triggers to DSLRs. Really, anything electronic-related.

Existing Problems:

One of the big problems I've found is that many product- or community-specific forums go down, leaving us at the mercy of archive.org, or peoples' photobucket accounts become inactive, keeping us from seeing photos requisite for following their instructions. The whole idea was to have a site that doesn't disable your pictures after a period of inactivity, and doesn't go down: Besides content/database backups, I envision sharing of these backups for mirroring or archival.

Website Software Options:

I have set up both a proper Wiki and a wiki-esque Drupal install. Both have add-ons available to export single articles or the entire database; the hardest part about replication would be the images, since image folders tend to get massive over time. Perhaps incremental backups would work best in this case.

I've currently got a Drupal 6 setup going with the content as book pages, and have given edit permissions for all book pages to registered users. My thinking is that there may not be enough active people in the community to help fight spam/destructive edits. Maybe I'm just not thinking big enough?

The MediaWiki setup is fairly new, but may be better suited for the sheer levels and depth of items posted.

I'm looking for input. Should I:

1. Keep the Wiki-esque Drupal setup (allowing only registered users to edit book pages)
2. Keep the Wiki-esque Drupal setup (allowing anyone to edit book pages)
3. Drop Drupal for a more traditional MediaWiki setup such as http://erroraccessdenied.com/elehackwiki/
4. Other ideas?

Also, what kind of license should it be under?

• CC-BY-SA? (Unless otherwise specified?) <--Probably the best option?
• Public Domain? (Might be hard to get people to waive their rights to content)
• (C) to the poster unless otherwise (optionally) waived? This would be easy for something where one person owned an entire article, but for something wiki-style where anyone can add or edit, not so much.

Please leave your thoughts in the comments. Thanks!