Norris
New member
Where to start?
All though only returning to caving at the beginning of 2010, after a break of over 10 years, I have long held the belief that there should be a central Who's Who of the caving world, past and present, and it was only after first using the UK Caving forum for a couple of weeks, and after uploading some book information, that I realised that the Who's Who does exist on the Caving Wiki.
I would suggest that not everyone may agree, but as the years move on the potential to capture this information is lost (some people leave the caving circle, others die). Just between the current users of the UK Caving website that has to be a mass of stored information, that if not recorded will be lost.
The Who's Who (need a better name, but it is early) is found in the Caving Wiki / History / People.
My current proposal is that I will start to update information in this area, add more names, dates of birth and death if applicable, what that individual did of note, etc. The list could be endless. As a for instance is Donald Robinson, a quick google doesn't reveal much more than that he wrote two books in his life, Caving and Potholing along with Anthony Greenbank in 1964, and a caving book in the "Know the Game " series in 1967. Wouldn't it be great if we could actually record somthing more about him.
Donald Robinson is only an example, many of the few names on the Caving Wiki Who's Who have no information at all.
All for now, if anyone has any comments / better ideas / if anyone wants to tell me it has all ready been done, and I just don't know about it, go for it.....................................
All though only returning to caving at the beginning of 2010, after a break of over 10 years, I have long held the belief that there should be a central Who's Who of the caving world, past and present, and it was only after first using the UK Caving forum for a couple of weeks, and after uploading some book information, that I realised that the Who's Who does exist on the Caving Wiki.
I would suggest that not everyone may agree, but as the years move on the potential to capture this information is lost (some people leave the caving circle, others die). Just between the current users of the UK Caving website that has to be a mass of stored information, that if not recorded will be lost.
The Who's Who (need a better name, but it is early) is found in the Caving Wiki / History / People.
My current proposal is that I will start to update information in this area, add more names, dates of birth and death if applicable, what that individual did of note, etc. The list could be endless. As a for instance is Donald Robinson, a quick google doesn't reveal much more than that he wrote two books in his life, Caving and Potholing along with Anthony Greenbank in 1964, and a caving book in the "Know the Game " series in 1967. Wouldn't it be great if we could actually record somthing more about him.
Donald Robinson is only an example, many of the few names on the Caving Wiki Who's Who have no information at all.
All for now, if anyone has any comments / better ideas / if anyone wants to tell me it has all ready been done, and I just don't know about it, go for it.....................................