Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-216.161.90.57-20150106174343

I'm an old computer ignoramus with a vision that I think a wiki might help with, but I need more information. Such as "What, precisely, is a Wiki, anyway?" I've used Wikipedia as a reader, and like it, but I'm not sure how it operates. How do people submit content? How do you weed out spammers, trolls, werewolves, protest-fleas, and bots? Is it possible to have a double-wiki that cross-references?

This last matters the most to me. I want to create a site for repurposing junk. I'd want every entry to have two listings:  "What can you do with X?" and "What can you use for Y?" For instance someone writes in about using old pantyhose to protect a ripening squash or melon from slugs. I'd want this to have two search avenues. 1) "From", would be in rags/women's/pantyhose, as in "What can I do with an old pair of pantyhose?" and 2) "To"  would be in gardening/vines/vine-fruit as in "What can I use to protect my squash without resorting to pesticides?" I want to know if this is even possible in a Wiki.

I also want to be able to prevent entries on things like making bombs, improvising crack factories, or other antisocial content, all of which could arguably tell how to repurpose junk, but not in a way that I want to encourage. Is this sort of entry preventable?

Thank you for your patience,  When I was born, computers were glorified calculators that nevertheless took up multiple stories, stored information on fat reels of magnetic tape, and ran on vacuum tubes. There's so much that I don't know about them! 