On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:53, Paul Howarth wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > The one thing I could see as an improvement over the current mailing > > list and bugzilla for fedora users would be to add a wiki that would > > be maintained mostly by a team of volunteers who would collate the > > frequently-asked questions on the list into stock answers on the > > wiki. Then much of the clutter on the mailling list could be avoided > > by searching the wiki first, and if new users don't recognize the > > symptoms well enough to find the answer themselves, the mailing list > > response would only have to be a pointer to the wiki entry. > > These new users would be the same people that don't read fedorafaq.org, > wouldn't they? You mean that page that was last updated in December, has a total of 15 problems and solutions, and no way for someone to add solutions or downloadable attachments? I can see why it isn't so popular... > That answers many of the questions ansked here, > particularly regarding NTFS, but it doesn't stop people asking. But it makes the answers easy if all you have to supply is a link to an up to date page. I've seen wiki's work for several other projects - it just takes a certain critical mass for it to become the preferred place to look and submit updates. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
