Timeline for Voting on the FAQ rewrite
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| Feb 2, 2012 at 0:46 | vote | accept | sysadmin1138Mod | ||
| Jan 31, 2012 at 17:03 | comment | added | Wesley | @ChrisS We don't need anything more than the list of what is acceptable and not acceptable. We don't need to qualify people's job titles. So, instead of "Server Fault is for System Administrators and Desktop Support Professionals..." it should say "Server Fault is for Information Technology professionals..." and then let the list of acceptable and unacceptable topics speak for themselves. That way it's clear that the site is for pros, and allows people of all specializations to participate. | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 16:09 | comment | added | user11604 | @ChrisS Freiheit's comment is the main problem, as I don't think that reads correctly. You could instead use something along the lines of, Server Fault is for questions relating to... and Server Fault is not for questions relating to..., aside from that, I'm perfectly happy with the text. | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 15:50 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | @WesleyDavid It needs to be short and concise; I certainly don't want a "Network Admin" coming along and thinking they're in the wrong place. But I don't want someone who administers their home network of 4 computers thinking that it fits them either... I think we'd all agree it could be better, but what would you put? | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 15:48 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | The cloud tag was trimmed back as it was getting unruley. I think it probably needs more work than anything else. The bold parts don't "need" to be sentences, it just needs to be clearly understanbable, which I believe they are. This isn't college English 101. Right now I'm in a bit of a time crunch but getting a limited list of the "best" tags in the cloud and making sure they all have decent tag-wikis is something we should certainly do be posting the FAQ. | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 15:44 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | @Bryan I agree, there's some relatively minor issues, as you've listed, that need correcting. Other than the typography, grammar, and possible spelling issues what are your thoughts on the content? | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 18:55 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | +1 - I'm not concerned about the cosmetics/grammar (though we certainly want a list and we need to fix that stuff before making this live), but I would like to see DC Ops included more prominently. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 7:25 | comment | added | Wesley | Let's consider that scoping the site to "Systems Administrators" might possibly sound like we're excluding people who are tightly scoped such as network engineers, datacenter folks, firewall administrators, storage experts, etc. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 4:26 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @JohnGardeniers - that's always the way these things go, isn't it? ;) | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 3:18 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | It bothers me that this has been a work in progress for quite some time and only now some people are wanting to change things. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 1:35 | comment | added | Shane Madden | Yup, I think we need a few more tweaks now that we've got more eyeballs on it. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 0:32 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | Sorry I'm going to have to put a +1 for no for the above mentioned reasons. I think the content is fine, but the formatting needs a bit of work | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 0:29 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @syneticon-dj - Absolutally, every single tag there needs a good wiki | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 0:28 | comment | added | user11604 |
Being pedantic, I've spotted some minor issues. Some Bullet points close with a full stop, others don't. The bullet points also have some comma separated items, some are capitalised, some aren't. Use of & and / instead of and and or. The text of bullet points that have sub bullet points, should end with a colon. Also, is (lex legis) really required, doesn't legal by definition cover that? although TBH, I did have to google that term, as I've never heard it before.
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| Jan 30, 2012 at 0:20 | comment | added | the-wabbit | I may be somewhat late with this, but the datacenter operations aspect is missing completely, just as is sysadmin-related organizational stuff like best practices / ITIL. I also feel that each and every referenced tag needs a meaningful wiki summary to be able to serve as "further reading" | |
| Jan 29, 2012 at 23:45 | comment | added | freiheit | The bold parts between lists, should, like DBA's faq form a sentence. "If your question is about ___ and it is not about ___ ..." then what? | |
| Jan 29, 2012 at 23:32 | history | answered | sysadmin1138Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |