> If entering a new page is really the way to ask a question, then you > should write this on the front page, and as a possible way to contribute > on the getting-started page. It would also be a good idea to tell > people like me how to find those questions. ("Recent Edits" seems a > little too broad, with too little in the way of subject matter in the > comments, but maybe that's just because nobody's asking questions yet.)
I don't think it's a good idea to use the wiki as a way to ask questions. We already have a great forum to ask questions - this mailing list. Creating a new place to ask questions potentially fragments the community of people available to answer questions. I think the wiki would be more appropriate as a way to record collective best practices, but this relies on it being easy to find them again. > And it would be a good idea to seed the wiki with a lot of questions, > just to get some activity going. That's good for people who want to ask questions, but people who want their questions answered are presented with many blank pages (http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/Empty+Pages), and will be discouraged. > And maybe set up a page for pointers to questions that are languishing > unanswered? I think the key is to make it easy to ask a question and > easy to answer one, so don't put too much bureaucracy into the process. I think it's useful to consider more the purpose of the wiki - what makes it different to the mailing list? to the website? to the existing documentation? How can the strengths of the wiki form be used to our advantage? Hadley ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.