Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Paul Howarth]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:53, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>>The one thing I could see as an improvement over the current mailing
>>>list and bugzilla for fedora users would be to add a wiki that would
>>>be maintained mostly by a team of volunteers who would collate the
>>>frequently-asked questions on the list into stock answers on the
>>>wiki.  Then much of the clutter on the mailling list could be avoided
>>>by searching the wiki first, and if new users don't  recognize the
>>>symptoms well enough to find the answer themselves, the mailing list
>>>response would only have to be a pointer to the wiki entry.
>>
>>These new users would be the same people that don't read fedorafaq.org, 
>>wouldn't they?
> 
> 
> You mean that page that was last updated in December, has a total
> of 15 problems and solutions, and no way for someone to add solutions
> or downloadable attachments?  I can see why it isn't so popular...

Actually it was last updated yesterday but your other points are still 
valid.

Nevertheless, it does answer the often-asked questions about NTFS and 
bootable floppies, yet there's no end to the number of people still 
asking *those* questions.

> But it makes the answers easy if all you have to supply is a
> link to an up to date page.  I've seen wiki's work for several
> other projects - it just takes a certain critical mass for it to
> become the preferred place to look and submit updates. 

Has to be worth a try I think.

Paul.