Following on from my last post, we now have our first wiki-implementation on Bouldr.

From now on, anyone that is logged in can make changes to the climbs on Bouldr, so if you find errors, omissions or you have extra information to add, you can update the climb yourself!

There are a couple of other improvements and fixes - most notably the back button now works correctly in the explorer (Though this can only be fixed in IE and FireFox at the moment).

OK, having had a decent number of climbers contributing to Bouldr over the past few weeks, we have come to realise that we need to make a rather fundamental change in order to allow Bouldr to reach it’s maximum potential.

The Problem

Say somebody adds a famous climb to Bouldr, but they add it in the wrong place. This is no good for anyone. Bouldr contains incorrect information, and it really needs fixing. Currently, the only way of having the error corrected is to message the person that posted it and tell them of the error. This obviously has a couple of problems - even if they get your message, they might not be bothered, and the problem will never be fixed.

The Solution

We’re moving to a Wiki-style editing method. Each climb will be editable by any registered user, with a history of changes and a page for discussing the changes appended. If we do this, then any climber will be able to make corrections, revert erroneous modifications and discuss changes for any climb.

Comments?

As ever, we’re looking for as much feedback, criticism and comments - we’re building Bouldr for you, so tell us what you think, and I’ll try to get back to everyone individually. Use the comments, the forum or just message me directly.

We’ve just pushed another release into the wild:

• Manual adding of lat/long to problem (for all the GPS enabled climbers!)
• Uploads should work correctly now
• Corrected problem with the uploaded image being blocky, and the line in the wrond place
• Fixed image notes in IE7

More new stuff in the pipe…

On the 31st January, I posted a new thread on UKBouldering, and to my amazement, over 50 climbers joined up over the last two days, adding a total of 120 climbs to Bouldr!

I’m hoping that this trend continues, as the more climbers that join, and the more climbs that are added, the more useful Bouldr becomes. So this is a call for help - if you’d like to see Bouldr grow and you’d like to see us make Bouldr into something we all love, then please talk about us on forums, invite your friends, and get involved!

I’d love to get feedback - good and bad (so long as it’s constructive), and any ideas you may have would be greatly appreciated. Use our forums, or message me directly, and I’ll try to get back to all of you individually.