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Vanilla may look a little lightweight compared to others, but IMHO that helps to make it more conversational and uncluttered. phpBB and the like often seem to keep posts and subjects quite segregated
I second the use of a Wiki. I think we could do a lot for categories like "Travel & Trips" and especially "Mechanics & Fixing". A Wiki can serve the same purpose as an FAQ, but where FAQ's tend to be viewed as defacto (when they may be only one or two contributers views) a Wiki helps maintain the same info in a democratic way and it's less likely to go stale.
A Warning: Wiki's do need maintenance to help link topics together. Without various benevolent Wiki trawlers and fixers the links never get created and it never becomes as good a resource as it could. Late nighters, such as chris crash and hippy could put their time to use here ;).
I'd love to see a Wiki where you can have the main content in the page and still be editable by all, yet have comments or footnotes too so users can comment on the info without disrupting its flow. How about embedding Wiki links in the normal vanilla comment pages - should be easy enough if its all hosted on the same server?
Some info:
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[li]I love the cleanness of DocuWiki[/li]
[li]Tiki has a kind of comment option (although I think the rest looks cluttered) Tiki comments[/li]
[li]Twiki's comments allow all sorts of uses: voting[/li]
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