FAQ and Wiki

John Rumm · 2009-04-17T23:41:21+00:00

Anyone got any thoughts on the ongoing development of the FAQ and the Wiki?It seems that since we have had the Wiki, not much new has gone into the FAQ (I don't think there have been any updates on it in a couple of years now). However reading through some of it tonight a few thoughts struck me:There is growing overlap in content. Although the newer articles are not always better than the older ones.The FAQ has better browsability - the contents page format at the top makes it easier to browse stuff by topic. The article index and the contents by category links on the top of the wiki main page aren't quite as nice. Having said that the category intro pages themselves are quite nice. e.g. one had a page of major topics as per the FAQ, calling up selected interesting category lists, it might work quite well.The Wiki however has better searchability...While its easy for the wiki to refer back to the FAQ - there is no easy way currently to add references the other way.So should be looking at better integrating the two resources?What about importing the better stuff from the FAQ into the wiki, and then trimming the FAQ to become a structured way of linking to wiki articles?Should there be a core of fundamental articles that are kept in the FAQ deliberately to prevent the content being changed or "enhanced" to the point of bloat or cruft?

FAQ and Wiki

Apr 17, 2009 23 Replies

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Phil Addison 17 years ago

Not necesarily, if a new FAQ editor emerged.....

I think all copyright gets assigned to the FAQ (in the guise of the current editor), so should not be a problem. Of course original contributers are asked for permission when edits are made, where they are still traceable.

A vote for making it a wiki front end then.

We mustn't forget the generosity of grunff in hosting both the FAQ and Wiki. Hope the bandwith is still tolerable grunff?

Seconded, and also for your own contributions John (S).

Phil

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Phil Addison 17 years ago

Its pretty old now but I've converted the previously posted doc and pdf files to plain text format

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Phil Addison 17 years ago

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are *much* easier on the eye.

Phil

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meow2222 17 years ago

Cheers Phil. OK... there is a issue. Wikicode only supports 4 heading levels, from = to ====, but the document uses 8.

I'll code up the parts that only use 4 levels, which is most of it, as and when, but the rest will need to be rejigged one way or another. Some of it I can see easily enough how to do that, so maybe I'll get back when I've done what I can. I dont know when that'll be though. Now we can look forward to a traditional structured 'contents' page!

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