Splitting wine wiki FAQ (was: Wine wiki cleanup)

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:06 pm

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Jim <[email protected]> wrote:

Should we do this for the FAQ as well? I mean:

Make a separate developer DeveloperFaq (WikiName)

Move developer related topics from FAQ to DeveloperFAQ

Add question to FAQ "Where is the Developer FAQ?" to FAQ. -OR- Possibly not as a FAQ question but a very visible Note at the top. "Developers see DeveloperFaq"

A shorter FAQ may look less intimidating to lazy readers thus encouraging more readers and possibly fewer "noob" questions on the list.

Sounds good to me!

I'm cc'ing wine-devel; if nobody objects by Friday, go ahead and do it.
- Dan

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:21 pm

On 19/03/2008, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote:

Sounds good to me!
I'm cc'ing wine-devel; if nobody objects by Friday, go ahead and do it.

The thing to keep in mind is: with the new forum gateway, wine-users
is getting a flood of regular non-geek users - the sort of people who
are not geeks at all, but who are sick of Windows being flaky, so they
try Linux (often Ubuntu) and try Wine for that one Windows program
they're stuck with.

And with Wine 1.0 just around the corner, they're going to appear in a
*FLOOD*. You think wine-users has lots of n00bs now? This is NOTHING
to the flood that's about to show up ...

So yeah, the key thing to keep in mind will be to very clearly steer
them to stuff that answers the n00b questions well!

(And thus keep them out of the developers' hair, except the valiant
n00b-helpers who have been writing decent bug reports from scanty
information in the last few weeks from forum/list posts ...)

- d.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:22 pm

Dan please do not crosspost in users and devel lists. One or the other but not both!