Re: <FAQENTRY> 3.2 update needed

JRS: In article <Kf2dnaIAipJhnPXeRVn-pA@comcast.com>, dated Tue, 1 Nov
2005 19:02:47, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Randy Webb
<HikksNotAtHome@aol.com> posted :
>Dr John Stockton said the following on 11/1/2005 4:27 PM:
>> JRS: In article <dk7tm80u0k@news1.newsguy.com>, dated Tue, 1 Nov 2005
>> 08:21:56, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Matt Kruse
>> <newsgroups@mattkruse.com> posted :
>>
>>>VK wrote:
>>>
>>>><snip>
>>>
>>>Perhaps the FAQ should be a wiki?
>>
>>
>> No. The important thing is that the FAQ is updated only by a known,
>> knowledgeable person, is distributed in News, and is reviewed by at
>> least some of the regulars; it may be hard to understand in places, but
>> it is pretty trustworthy.
>
>True, but, I don't see why the FAQ Editor has to be a "knowledgeable
>person" if that knowledge is in reference to scripting itself. Other
>than knowing how the server side processing works. It only takes a
>person that can review, count votes, and edit text to maintain it. The
>auto-posting of the FAQ is done automatically.

An editor without a good knowledge of both the languages - English and
Javascript - cannot be relied upon to produce a comprehensible and exact
version. An editor who has to be continually corrected in detail will
not last, and meanwhile wastes everyone's time.

However, if we are talking about a mere publisher, it would be possible
for someone knowing no javascript and being able to read but not write
English to transfer sections according to agreed instructions here; I
doubt whether anyone would want to do that for long unpaid.
 

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