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What is Vespa Labs?

Vespa Labs is a "Wiki" hosted in a small shed out the back of a house in Melbourne, Australia (a.k.a. Vespa Lab 1). The purpose of Vespa Labs is to gather and collate all information about Vespas in a way that can be used and refined by everyone that is interested. The use of the term "lab" is meant to encourage the application of science, where possible, to the information given. We hope that people will have fun testing things out and providing information for everyone to view and use. There will be secondhand information, of course, but this should be referenced, whether it be a book, web page or an online forum. There will also be mistakes and incorrect information, but people should feel free either to add comments to get things fixed quickly or to fix such issues themselves.

What is a Wiki?

"A wiki is a collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it". This is the definition from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and is itself a good example of how people all over the world can collaborate to build a valuable resource for all... this is an example of what Vespa Labs wishes to achieve for Vespa information.

Also note the Disclaimer!!!

How to use this Wiki?

This wiki is a shared notebook, you add value by reviewing its content and keeping it up to date and easy to understand. We encourage you to create an account as a "Lab Rat" and add any comments that you think need adding. You can even update pages, but before adding anything you should have a look at Wiki 101 and Technical Wiki Writing.

You can add your own pages but you should start creating pages in your own lab area first. For example a lab member might trawl the internet on expansion chambers and dump the info in their "lab" (i.e. a personal notebook). Once the info becomes firsthand (i.e. the lab member acquires the expansion chamber), he can start moving info to, or creating info in, the public area (i.e. the public notebook which gets refined by everyone). Treat your lab area as "anything goes": it represents your personal information aimed at yourself. Treat the main area as everyone's information (even if you initially created it), that is to say, information aimed at the general public.
 

How do I contribute to this Wiki?

To keep some sanity, users are given different levels of responsibility. The idea here is to allow anyone to do anything but provide some protection for the integrity of the site as a whole. The user levels and how they can contribute are listed below: