fudadmin Messages: 1321 Registered: November 2005 Location: Kaunas, Lithuania
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gprentice wrote on Fri, 31 March 2006 13:35
1. ... but nobody's adding what they learn to the documentation.
2. ...However I don't want to be the instigator of adding a bunch of topics/ sections to the forum that nobody's going to use.
3. It might be hard to persuade people to write up what they learn ...
4. Can everyone edit the same post - or would you end up with a string of posts all on one particular widget or class or topic?
Graeme
1a) Forums are some kind of source for/of the documentation.
Currently, forums have far better searching capabilities than Topic++.
1b) AFAIK, Mirek is adding constantly from forums to the website.
1c) I've been adding my commented examples to "Extra libraries..." category
1d) and trying to ask questions even I can find the answers myself (but usually Mirek is lightning fast... )
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2a) We can use vote for each topic! Later then can be deleted or archived. Also, there are counters how many times each topic has been opened. (You can't have that with wikis... )
2b) How do you know in advance that something is not useful if you haven't tried? (applies to conservative U++ "not users", too )
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3. Best persuading is persuading by example...
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4a) It is possible to let users edit each others posts but then you lose the possibility to compare and get fighting chances "I want this and you deleted!!!" If you study wikipedia more deeply you can see how many topics are locked and what's going on behind the scenes...
4b)IMHO, you will never end with "long string" just because of
3- "It might be hard to persuade people to write up what they learn ..."
So, just do! Lot of things in the world could have been done if people wouldn't base their decisions on imaginable failure...
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