Hi Fabian,
I think the ideal collaboration would somehow support shared logins, but I expect that's complicated at this point. Perhaps gets easier with the OpenID developments.
Otherwise, just having clear mutual support is a good start, with obvious links between the sites. With a tight partnership, the Wiki might want to put a link on the side bar (always visible). Add that to good awareness among the core user crowd, and I can see the content / conversations reaching across both sites. When a forum thread "matures" or a consensus develops, then it might make sense to create an article or article section in the wiki. Other times, someone may come to the forum and ask a question that's well discussed in the wiki (though potentially with an unexpected vocabulary, making it hard to find with search). We can link them back to the wiki.
I have a sense that this would work better at the same domain, but as I said earlier (maybe in email?) we're strongly inclined toward working with existing folks rather than re-inventing.
We're getting many thousands of unique visitors per month, and growing all the time, so we can help bring traffic to SF.com, and I expect the synergy would work both ways.
Other members at the wiki are supportive. Or perhaps I should say the other admins are supportive. We start those conversations at that level.
Forums are great for conversations, and yet this particular conversation might work better via skype or similar. Let me know.
By the way, I'm a bit of a "forum newbie" and don't know the difference between "Post Reply" and "Q Reply". I'll look around for hints, but may not find it...
Best regards,
CB
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