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Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page? |
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Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:09:16 +0100 |
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Paul Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> janek.lilypond wrote
>> Q&A sites like StackExchange are better for sharing Q&A knowledge than
>> mailing lists because they allow to edit information, update it,
>> remove duplicates, and make order.
>
> I think this is a good point. The mailing list is sufficient and fine, but
> it's probably not optimal for organizing a Q&A-type knowledge base that (1)
> makes it easy to find definitive and best answers to (often very common)
> questions, and that (2) can be edited, improved, and evolve over time with
> different versions of LilyPond, etc.
Uh, we do have a manual that can be edited, improved, and evolve over
time with different versions of LilyPond...
> Apparently it allows you to answer by email: "You can use Shapado
> without leaving your favorite mail client, just subscribe to people or
> tag and you will receive your question by mail so you can just answer
> from there."
As I already stated: I think the medium of a mailing list is fine, but
an archive with "community-driven" indexing, sorting and scoring of
articles and/or authors might go a long way towards making already
discussed information easier to find in case it has not made it into the
proper documentation for some reason.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, (continued)
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- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, Noeck, 2013/11/01
- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, ryanmichaelmcclure, 2013/11/01
- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, Gilberto Agostinho, 2013/11/01
- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, David Kastrup, 2013/11/02
- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/11/02
- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, Janek WarchoĊ, 2013/11/02
- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, David Kastrup, 2013/11/02
- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, Paul Morris, 2013/11/02
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David Kastrup <=
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- Re: Thoughts about creating Stack Exchange page?, Urs Liska, 2013/11/02
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