Re: <FAQENTRY> 3.2 update needed

JRS: In article <dk8f0s$k8h$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk>, dated Tue, 1
Nov 2005 19:17:47, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Richard Cornford
<Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> posted :
>
>As to the FAQ being a wiki; I have said from the outset, and it is
>stated in the notes, that anyone wishing to contribute an article to the
>FAQ notes is free to do so, so long as they accept that the article be
>subject to public technical scrutiny on the group (and accepted as
>accurate/useful) and may be subject to unrestricted future editing (in
>the event that it becomes inaccurate at some future point).

If an article is worth putting in the FAQ notes, then it is worth
posting here, initially and after any *major* change. It would be
sufficient to copy'n'paste from a browser view.

>The total number of articles proposed for inclusion in the FAQ notes in
>the last two years is one. And that written by VK; factually incorrect,
>confused and misleading, and so not included because it did not (and
>could not) pass the scrutiny of the group.

Your notes are not conveniently accessible to me, since I dial up only
briefly.

They are not collectively indexed in the FAQ, and I don't know if my own
index is up-to-date. I suggest that they be indexed in a [sub-]section
of the FAQ, with modification date; and that there should be a Web index
with modiification dates (you may already have one) specifically
mentioned in the FAQ.

>And we are not even restricted to whole articles, there is the
>miscellaneous tips and tricks page, where any well explained specific
>technique might be presented, but no contributions there either.
>
>So given that nobody seems willing or able to contribute anything
>substantial to the FAQ

As you don't update the posted FAQ frequently, you cannot expect many
people to bother to prepare suggestions.
 

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