Community-edited documentation
PaulC:
I'm pretty new around here (hello!), seems like a helpful community.
If I might ask a naive question, has anyone considered setting up a community-edited documentation web site? Forums are great for discussion, but poor for sharing wisdom (the nuggets are there, but hard to find, buried in the noise...).
I'm sure there's a core group of folk that have been here a while, learned and contributed much. Anyone up for setting up a community wiki to record that hard-won knowledge in a structured fashion? The official documentation isn't exactly accessible for most, but rather than complain about it, perhaps we should enable the community to collaborate on good documentation?
I'm already liking this little device, it would be nice to 'pay it forward'. Even if we started with a FAQ, and moved onto a simple curated collection of links to key posts on this forum, it'd be an improvement.
Any of the senior members interested in doing this?
- Paul
giqcass:
I would have to agree with you. Some of the good documentation I have found thus far has been off site unless it was something basic. There is some really good documentation on this forum but it is tough to find.
giqcass:
I would also like to add half the questions I see here have already been asked and answered many times.
PaulC:
The other communities I've participated in have put together FAQs to preserve their member's sanity. Otherwise the long-time members start getting frustrated with new members that ask the same question for the 1,998,253th time. Better for everyone if you can say 'please read FAQ #23' than 'oh my lord, not that question again, do you not know how to search?'
The official documentation is better than none, but it's dense information that won't be very accessible to most people. A little explanation, particularly of context and assumptions, could go a long way in making it more helpful to mere mortals :)
- Paul
PaulC:
No-one else has an opinion?
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