On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well then, there should have been more consultation before going on to the > Ask site without nl group support. Is there not a push to provide native > language support for the Ask site?
(Note: I'm one of the mods on the Ask site and sometimes roll up my sleeves and poke at the backend) AFAIK there was some initial support for NLP Ask sites, but the backend dev support has been limited for most of 2013. We do have a PT-BR Ask site up and running (as a test, I think?), but it's not clear to me if we ever got the correct technical pieces in place to roll-out multiple NLP Ask sites from the same installation (which I believe was the original plan). > Also, there should be a disclaimer left at the top of the FAQ site that the > Ask site for EN is available. I can see your point about the nl teams not > having any FAQ support on the Ask site, but, the EN Ask site has been up and > running for a while, so to make the FAQ more rational, there should be some > type of coordination done at both levels FAQ maintainer and the Ask site > maintainer ... has the Ask site maintainer been told of this? I haven't looked at the FAQ in quite a while. When I tried typing-in a url, I found that this url doesn't even go to a page with wiki markup: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/FAQ (maybe something we can as infra to poke at...) Quickly glancing at the FAQ (or "Faq," I should say :-) there are a number of pages that are more How-To's than questions (e.g. "Tutorial on the use of the 'Report Wizard"). These types of pages definitely seem out-of-scope for the Ask site. Perhaps some of the content here would be more suited to live in the Documentation proper than in an FAQ? Take, for instance, the section regarding Base Forms: these questions seem like they could happily live as examples in a short chapter demonstrating hands-on use of Base Forms (with some nice screenshots, perhaps?). My general feeling is that an FAQ usually contains a number of disparate pieces of information that don't really "fit" anywhere else. The sections of closely-related articles about Base Tables or Extensions seems like we're closer to assembling a knowledgebase than a set of "Frequently Asked Questions." Cheers, --R -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
