As I understand it, the hard work comes in setting up the wiki itself to accept bio information. Everything after that is easy peasy.
It's actually ready to go as it is. The Wiki is private right now, so after registering and being approved, anyone can start going at it. However, I think for the first time, it would make sense to just create the bios as players are drafted, updating in subsequent years. Yes, that's how we've been doing it here for the longest time, but there are 1000 of them and I would say most will never stop changing. New discoveries are made every time we do this and it would make sense to start from scratch.
The process itself is simple; just click "New Page", title it "Player- XXXX XXXXXX", and use the simple editor to format the text. Anyone who can handle the bold and underline buttons here can handle making a Wiki. Once you have a roster page (created the same way as above), linking to it is as easy as highlighting the player name, clicking the hyperlink button (again, looks exactly like the one here) and selecting the pre-exisiting Wiki page.
Some things to consider:
-Editing policy for bios. It's a valid concern that another ATDer might edit out some good information in the place of their own profile, but the "short/long" concept makes sense. At any rate, the edit logs will make it easy to see who made what change, and if someone has a really big problem, all you need to do is message the GM here and ask them why they did it and if they'd be willing to compromise with you.
-Further to the above, Wikispaces allows for the setting of custom permissions. ie, only seventies and the admins could edit seventies' roster page. However, that's a feature only available if you upgrade to a premium package. They start at $20 a month. As it is, pages can be locked so that only admins can change them; that should be enough for now, and only a handful would be (yearly histories, that kind of thing). Otherwise, we're all adults (except you VCL
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-Drafting off-site. We don't have to do that; just an idea I had. I think a Wiki is valuable not only for bios, though, but for rosters and ATD history season-by-season. I'll put up a link to an example.