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I support this!
One of the original goals of the mods and hypermiling tips lists was to continually expand them - both in terms of adding more mods/tips, plus illustrative examples (eg. links to project threads in the forum and other supporting info elsewhere on the web). But the current setup relies on me to update it (and to be honest, I bit off more than I can chew. I've got too many projects!).
Suggestion:
Each of the mods/driving tips in the wiki should have a prominent link back to a dedicated (new) forum thread for discussion. I realize the wiki has "discuss" functionality, but if we separate that from the forum, we'd be undermining it somewhat, and I'd want to avoid that.
Concern:
My only reservation of using the wiki is this kind of scenario: where it gets set up / edited by a few motivated members who eventually lose interest/move on (hey, it's life - that happens). Then it gets vandalized / polluted by misinformed or malicious users (it's life - this will also happen).
Many of the tips / mods are controversial. I can guarantee that people will fail to read the disclaimer (eg: in general, "don't be stupid/unsafe") and take great offense at some of the points. Fuel prices are relatively cheap now, so it won't happen a lot. But when prices and traffic go up again, this will happen.
Not sure what the solution is to this scenario aside from vigilance.
Leveraging the current lists:
The existing tips/mods lists have excellent exposure on the web - tons of inbound links and lots of visitors. Once the wiki is going, I could link from the lists to the relevant wiki articles to encourage visitors to delve deeper... assuming the quality of the wiki ultimately exceeds the current lists, which I'm sure it will if EM members collectively take it on.
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