On 9/20/07, Jonas Gauffin <jonas.gauffin@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not talking about if people can or can't edit the pages.
I'm talking about users that want to find or read documentation (not contribute). For instance: New users.
Ahh you kept saying people who 'cant' which led me to believe you were talking about people who cant as opposed to wont. If they wont add, why would they add to something else? So I am still confused why there needs to be a "second class" documenter. Those that request others do things for themselves that they wont. What I want is a way for those users to give us that feedback. They
can, as you say, edit the pages and add their questions / suggestions directly in the page. But what will a page look like if 20 users have added questions / suggestions for improvement on it?
when the improvements are done those questions wont be there. Its been done on other pages where people didnt understand something, and it seems to work well since that highlights the exact area that caused confusion. I think it works a bit better infact since I generally dont click on every link in a page just to see if anyone is using the talk pages or some tertiary page to see if anyone has requested something. A request for missing documentation can be made by linking to a non-existant page. That I do check since its part of the output of my pdf generation script.
There are a section on the first page called "Community and Support" on the first page which tells the user how to get help. Maybe there should also be a section called "How to give feedback" too?
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