Hallo,
I think, one of the useful things on the old pd.org has been the FAQ. Hans now has created a "Topic" inside the FAQ folder to collect FAQs interactive. While the interactivity is very important, I think, that a Topic might not be the best way to organize it. For example, it is very hard to group items in a Topic or to search for unanswered questions.
I looked at how plone.org organizes their faq hoping to find a kind of "FAQ wizard", but they just use a Wikiweb for the FAQ.
This might not be the last word, but I do think that it is at least a bitbetter than a Topic:
We could collect new questions via comments and then create a list of unanswered questions by using the back links feature of a Wiki. (using for example "AnswerNeeded" as a called WikiBadge.
I made an example for this here: http://www.pure-data.org/Members/fbar/sandbox/AnswerNeeded
What do you think?
ciao
I agree. I was just testing out the idea, but a Wiki seems like the best idea. I removed the Topic.
Next thing to figure out is how to do the tutorials and other docs. I was thinking of trying a Topic, but I am not sure...
.hc
On Friday, Sep 26, 2003, at 13:29 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
I think, one of the useful things on the old pd.org has been the FAQ. Hans now has created a "Topic" inside the FAQ folder to collect FAQs interactive. While the interactivity is very important, I think, that a Topic might not be the best way to organize it. For example, it is very hard to group items in a Topic or to search for unanswered questions.
I looked at how plone.org organizes their faq hoping to find a kind of "FAQ wizard", but they just use a Wikiweb for the FAQ.
This might not be the last word, but I do think that it is at least a bitbetter than a Topic:
We could collect new questions via comments and then create a list of unanswered questions by using the back links feature of a Wiki. (using for example "AnswerNeeded" as a called WikiBadge.
I made an example for this here: http://www.pure-data.org/Members/fbar/sandbox/AnswerNeeded
What do you think?
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
Pdweb mailing list Pdweb@iem.at http://iem.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdweb
Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I agree. I was just testing out the idea, but a Wiki seems like the best idea. I removed the Topic.
Does someone still have the old FAQ from pd.org? We should probably review and import it then.
Also a Collector, which is actually more for bug reports, might be a product to consider for a FAQ. I'm not quite decided...
Next thing to figure out is how to do the tutorials and other docs. I was thinking of trying a Topic, but I am not sure...
I think a topic would be fine here, but topics are not exactly appealing to look at. So some editorial hand to collect these into nice looking overview pages might be needed, too.
ciao
On Friday, Sep 26, 2003, at 14:53 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I agree. I was just testing out the idea, but a Wiki seems like the best idea. I removed the Topic.
Does someone still have the old FAQ from pd.org? We should probably review and import it then.
Also a Collector, which is actually more for bug reports, might be a product to consider for a FAQ. I'm not quite decided...
I'll have to check out the Collector, but I think that a wiki makes a lot of sense for the FAQ. Plus its quite common for FAQs to be wikis these days.
Next thing to figure out is how to do the tutorials and other docs. I was thinking of trying a Topic, but I am not sure...
I think a topic would be fine here, but topics are not exactly appealing to look at. So some editorial hand to collect these into nice looking overview pages might be needed, too.
I think that a Topic might lack the level of organization that this would need. It might just call for the human touch.
.hc
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
Pdweb mailing list Pdweb@iem.at http://iem.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdweb
Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I'll have to check out the Collector, but I think that a wiki makes a lot of sense for the FAQ. Plus its quite common for FAQs to be wikis these days.
Yes, I think this, too.
BTW: I snatched the old pd.org FAQ from archive.org and archived it here: http://www.pure-data.org/Members/fbar/sandbox/Puredatafaq
It's unformatted, many answers are wrong now, anyway (like "Pd doesn't run on MacOS"). But the questions are still very good.
ciao