Website FAQ

[matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com]

Robert Stoffers writes: 

> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 10:37 +0100, Jane Silber wrote:
>> Henrik - 
>> 
>> > We can then prehaps put a link to the FAQ Guide on 
>> > Then we should decide on a destination for a redirect, so when someone
>> > goes to on of the old FAQ pages through some link, they are taken to a
>> > sensible place. Good candidates seem to be:
>> >
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDocumentation
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDocumentation
>> > https://doc.ubuntu.com/
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FAQGuide (or the place where this will end up) 
>> 
>> I think there should still be a Documentation entry under Support on the
>> website. I agree that it shouldn't be the Plone help centre nonsense,
>> but it is still a reasonable starting place for people to look so
>> something should be there.   So how about making
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/documentation a regular website page (no
>> subpages, not the Plone help centre) which says 
>> 
>> - to view current documentation, see http://doc.ubuntu.com and
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDocumentation 
>> 
>> - for frequently asked questions, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FAQGuide 
>> 
>> - to contribute documentation, join us at
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam 
>> 
>> Jane 
>> 
> 
> I think a much better place for the FAQ Guide, along with all the other
> official documentation, is http://doc.ubuntu.com. We could have
> sub-domains branching off this, such as http://doc.ubuntu.com/faqguide.
> All that would then need to happen is for us to replace any redundant
> pages in the wiki with a link to http://doc.ubuntu.com/faqguide. Having
> builds of our documents on a user-editable wiki is just asking for pain.

I personally still think the best idea is the original one: to have 
doc.ubuntu.com for previews and status reports of our work in progress, and 
help.ubuntu.com for released documents, which could be under the support tab 
of the website in the documentation section. 

M