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Welcome to Scoobypedia - a Wiki knowledge base for anything Subaru, maintained by experts - you the community.
Scoobypedia is an open wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of technical articles. Scoobypedia pages are like normal web pages, except they have an ‘Edit’ link that makes it easy to add /or modify existing pages. You do not need to know or use any HTML.
Please spend five minutes looking at the site rules, FAQ and tips for editing before posting. More detailed information can be found in the documentation index.
If you are one of our Scoobypedia regulars or fancy writing up a new article perhaps have a go at one of these.
Recent News Articles
01 Jan 2010 - Happy year year to our many existing and new Scoobypedia knowledge-base contributors. Thank you for your support last year, which continues to grow year-on-year. We look forward to sharing and maintaining many more new articles during 2010.
21 Aug 2009 - Scoobypedia.co.uk has now purchased the Scoobypedia.com domain. With the acquisition of the .com domain, Scoobypedia’s future has been secured (from copycats) as the most comprehensive open and free subaru knowledge base. Our ‘knowledge articles’ are referred to, every day, of every year, from the most popular Subaru forums including SIDC.co.uk and ScoobyNet.
Since our last news update we’ve added a number of new articles including an Impreza Buying Guide, a Subaru Paint Codes list for Scooby’s needing a touch-up and if you’re hearing a knocking from your STi’s you’ll want to see our Knocking Newage Rear Struts self-help article.
08 Aug 2009 - Just noticed … Scoobypedia is 4 years young today. Happy birthday us! The Subaru community is keeping us busy with just over 2 million page views by users world-wide.
02 May 2009 - We’ve got an illuminating Glowing Subaru Badge, good reasons to hang on to your classic’s with a great Classic MY94 Facelift and refreshing H2O Water Injection Installation experiment breathing more life into your Scooby - try it, you might like it!
02 Jul 2008 - It’s been a while since we updated the news page. We’ve introduced a number of quality articles including ways to combat the ongoing fuel crisis with our Scooby LPG Conversion, cosmetic modifications by Installing A Spec C Roof Vent or Hawkeye STi Door Card Upgrade. Perhaps you have problems passing your MoT and need the CAT MoT Failure Fix or you want to Make Your Own Det Cans or Replace Your Spark Plugs.
Where are you coming from?30 Sep 2007 - Where are you all coming from? Well, we can see from our web statistics that the majority of you (over 51%) are being referred from the numerous Subaru communities around the world, next up is from search engines and the rest directly.
A number of new articles have been added including; Radio Lockout, Sigma M30 Alarm Hidden Features, Reprogramming Sigma M30 Key Fobs, STi 8 Intercooler onto MY00 Classic, How to remove rear disks, Estimated Horse Power from Injectors. Thanks to the various Subaru community forums where these were extracted from.
26 Sep 2007 - Scoobypedia search feature has been enhanced to include ‘Google-type’ excerpts within the search results. This search example demonstrates the result of the typing ‘resetting your ecu’ in the search box.
21 Sep 2007 - Scoobypedia is now the home of the Subaru Impreza Drivers Club (SIDC) legendary FAQ. The original FAQ has been migrated to Scoobypedia and split into a number of pages for better organisation and presentation. It still needs bringing up to date with the latest models and expanded where required. Edits to the FAQ are currently password protected to allow the FAQ team time to get the initial updates in place.
18 Sep 2007 - A Perfect Partnership - Subaru Impreza Drivers Club and Scoobypedia.co.uk join forces to create one of the largest managed knowledge-bases for all things Subaru.
In 2005 Steve Crisp started Scoobypedia with the line “Initial embryonic idea and creation of Scoobypedia. There is much to do…” Two years later Scoobypedia is widely recognised as one of the resources of information of all things Subaru related.
The SIDC was formed some 10 years ago by like minded individuals wanting to share information, improve driving skills and find benefits for the whole Subaru Community.
Importantly both organisations remain non profit making and open to all – you the Subaru community.
When the SIDC started its plan to improve its web presence last year much discussion ensued regarding its legendary FAQ. It needed bringing up to date with the latest models and migrating from the difficult to maintain HTML web page to something supporting collaborative maintenance. The update was going to take some time with contributions from the SIDC FAQ Team, however they wanted to do this on an ongoing basis and invite new people to the team.
Enter Scoobypedia, an editable knowledge base built on the Open Source Wiki engine PmWiki™. Now hosted on the SIDC’s Server, it exclusively holds the SIDC FAQ. Over the coming months this will be brought up to date by the FAQ Team.
Of course it doesn’t stop there. The SIDC will be able to publish new Scoobypedia technical articles, unlocking valuable technical knowledge once buried in the their forums. You may discuss these articles on the SIDC forums and update relevant Scoobypedia articles as required.
There are many other possibilities which we will be discussing over the coming weeks, stay tuned.
28 Jul 2007 - We were nearly kicked off by our ISP because we are too popular! We’ve had to implement a number of performance optimisations so search is disabled for now.
A similar Subaru knowledge base to ours has started up somewhere - apparently we are now known as the real Scoobypedia. Be assured, technical issues aside, Scoobypedia will always be available, always be free, as a knowledge base for you all to use and contribute to.
Please note that when using other knowledge-base systems check that you are happy with their copyright/privacy statements as to how that information is to be used - not all sites are the same ;-)
Finally we have been approached by another non-profit club and are in discussions on how we can better integrate the two sites. More news on this soon.
01 Feb 2007 - Scoobypedia was pleased to help the ROM Raider (formerly Enginuity) Open Source ECU tuning project redesign their website. Yes, we used a Wiki and tied authentication to the existing phpBB forum. This better shows off the fantastic software and helps the owner share the maintenance of the web site - that is the purpose of the Wiki. Please visit http://www.romraider.com and show your support.
01 Jan 2007 - Scoobypedia is 14 months old having 78000 unique hits! We’re up to around 9000 unique visits per month with some 28 people helping maintain the various technical articles. We’ve added small GoogleAds to the top and bottom of each page - by clicking these relevant items we get around a 30% contribution to our web hosting fees helping support this free resource. The majority of you are linking to our pages from various Subaru sites - most popular are openecu.org, enginuity.org, nasioc.com, scoobynet.co.uk, sidc.co.uk, subaruclubfinland.net, all others listed here.
29 Oct 2006 - OpenECU.org is referenced in a recent New York Times article. See it here: Need a Tuneup? Become a Hacker
03 Oct 2006 - Since July we’ve had more people contribute and maintain articles including the Enginuity and Reflashing FAQ, Oil Labelling, many updates to the ECU Version Compatibility List, Boost Mapping, the start of an Importing Guide, Slant Eye Dash Upgrade to a MY05, Ignition Advance Multiplier Memory Locations. We’ve had 53,113 Unique Visits to date!’‘’
02 Jul 2006 - Scoobypedia is nearly one year old! We can not believe how popular this site has been - we are up to 36,700 unigue visitors now - an order of magnitude increase from 6 months ago. The most popular pages are our various ECU technical articles. Our growth is mainly due to a number of you linking to our pages from various Subaru forums/BBS’. I’ve create a Visitor Referals page to capture the forums and countries your coming from - far and wide! The power of this Wiki-based system is that anyone can create/edit pages. We have a slowly growing group of contributors - currently 15 people. Thanks you all for our continued support.
30 Dec 2005 - Five months have now passed and the web site statistics show that the developing knowledge base is proving very popular. We’ve had 3,600 unique visits (a visitor is counted only when bringing up more than one page and taking no longer than 30 minutes between individual pages) and your visiting from a number of good Subaru forums including; scoobynet.co.uk, openecu.org, perth-wrx.com, sidc.co.uk, nasioc.com, mrb.it, subaruclub.nl, subaru-forum.be, tari.co.za and enginuity.org. Thanks for showing an interest in Scoopypedia and we hope you have a happy year year!
27 Nov 2005 - Scoobypedia knowledge base is starting to grow with new technical articles under Drivetrain especially for ECU datalogging, reading ECU codes and ECU flash and dump utilities. It would be great to hear from you on our Suggestions page. Also, you can keep track of site changes by attaching your favourite RSS client to our Scoobypedia RSS feed
14 Aug 2005 - Started adding this site to various search engines. Added page description and keywords to homepage to help improve page search ranking. Manually added site to google and yahoo and used submit express to automatically submit to 20 more search engines.
13 Aug 2005 - Site is up and running with a basic (example) structure. It would be great if we can work with a few people to evolve it further.
08 Aug 2005 - Initial embrionic idea and creation of Scoobypedia. There is much to do…
