On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:18 PM, H. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Tegan Dowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tegan > > > > > > this is an interesting point. > > > I feel the questions page is more accessible than searching the mailing > > > list, > > > > It is, or would be if the questions posed there were consistently > > reviewed and responded to. You are one of the few knowlegable people > > who seems to look at it and post to it regularly. Many of the > > questions there really need responses from a community of users, which > > the list provides. Many of the questions there have had no response > > from anyone at all. > > FWIW, here's the origin and purpose of the Questions page: > > The Questions page was originally created as sort of an > infrequently-asked questions page during a "documentation cleanup" > effort that happened prior to a major release of PmWiki. At the time > the pages of the PmWiki group, the FAQ page in particular, had a lot > of questions that didn't belong wherever they were. Most of the > questions moved to the page were previously unnoticed and unanswered. > > I agree that the Questions page is largely being ignored -- except by > a few stand-up folks like Tegan Downling (Thanks!) -- but removing > the Questions page will not necessarily reduce the number of > unanswered questions on pmwiki.org.
Actually, I was just recommending that reference to it be removed from the "how to get help" or "how to report a bug" documentation, NOT that the page be removed from the wiki. It does serve a purpose (some new-comers to PmWiki might be reluctant to join the list, and shouldn't have to join just to get help), but I wish that we, as a community, could severally do a better job of fielding those questions, since as things are, those same new-comers are seeing the designated "where to go on the site for help" page full of un-replied-to cries for help. _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
