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Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:53:05 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: the sad state of our FAQs
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Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Our FAQs are in a really sad state and it#s about time to think about  
> what we want to do about that because in the current state there are  
> creating much more harm than good.

[...]

> My proposal is to move all the FAQs to the wiki(just with what happened  
> with the developer FAQ) with the hope that more people get interested in  
>  keeping them up to date and only reference those on the main page that  
> at least contains "somewhat" accurate information.I honestly believe  
> that the current state is more damaging that not having any (translated  
> FAQs) at all.

I completely agree that having a bad translation is worse than not
having a translation at all.  However, enthusiastic people will
translate anything you throw at them, and if the tools don't help, the
results will be less than ideal; bad formatting, slightly wrong answers,
outdated answers.

If we move the FAQ to the wiki, the outdated translations will not
disappear nor be automatically updated.  I claim that if we move them to
a translatable framework that helps people notice when the translation
is nonexistant or out of date, we will have better results.

I proposed this previously but got no support from Bruce who is supposed
to be the FAQ maintainer, and thus I ended up doing nothing.  Therefore
I now offer to do the job required to move them to XML Docbook and allow
translatability using xml2po or something similar.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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