[Gimp-web] website proposal

[David Marrs]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> The wiki is a completely different site with different goals and it
> should be clearly different.
Could you summarise for me what the wiki's purpose is? I couldn't find a 
description on the wiki itself.

> The FAQ should IMO be moved from the wiki
> to the main site. It makes sense to point to the wiki as a place to add
> more questions. But as soon as answers are available, they should be
> moved to the official FAQ which should remain on the main site.
> 
Sorry, are you saying that there is already an official FAQ page on the main 
site that answers from the wiki should be moved to (I can't find one) or that 
one needs to be created first?

I saw the new questions section in the wiki[1] and I think maybe I'm missing its 
raison d'etre. If a new question gets posted to it, it can't immediately be 
answered because it's only been asked once. But if the question is already 
present on the page, no one is surely going to feel the need to repeat it, so 
how can it ever become a FAQ?

The logical place to get real FAQs is surely the mailing lists where people are 
posting questions all the time. I noticed today, for example, that a number of 
people have expressed an interest in HDR images. This would be a good candidate 
for a FAQ.


[1] http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/UserFaqNewQuestion