IMHO, When questions are asked on the list, perhaps we should actually write them onto a Wiki page and reference the page in the response to the mailing list. I am sure that everyone here has gone through the pain of searching the mailing list for answers. The signal to noise ratio is VERY high.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Eade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 2:49 AM > To: turbine-user > Subject: Re: AW: Intake: meaning of $myForm.setQueryKey("abc") ?? > > > On 3/02/2003 7:26 PM, "Marc Lustig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Scott, if the "wiki" format is the standard for submitting > a doc, why > > don't you write a wiki-howto and put it on the web-site, so > that all > > turbine-users are aware of it and can contribute. > > The wiki is a useful tool for developing documentation but > the official documentation will always be on the sites themselves. > > IMO a wiki howto is unnecessary (there are tonnes of > documents on how to use a wiki available already). A wiki is > very easy to use and the minimal effort required to > understand the concepts involved is the least we can all do > in order to make a contribution. > > If you use turbine, like it and perhaps derive benefits from > it then you should want to make contributions, no matter how > small, back to the turbine community. This is how projects > stay alive and hopefully grow. > > Contributing answers to the list is a great way to give back > to the community, contributing to the wiki is arguably > better, contributing patches to the xdocs and the code itself > is obviously even better. > > It is really easy to moan that the documentation could be > better - everyone did this a couple of months ago and the > consensus that a wiki would be a great way to allow everyone > to contribute towards the documentation. Whether or not it is > a success is a shared responsibility. > > Note that Quinton has already added a link to the howto > documents housed on the wiki. Perhaps we should put a > further link to the relevant wiki pages in the top level > menus for the turbine sites. > > Cheers, > > Scott > -- > Scott Eade > Backstage Technologies Pty. Ltd. > http://www.backstagetech.com.au .Mac Chat/AIM: > seade at mac dot com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
