Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:41:11 +0900 (JST)
Message-Id: <20090310.084111.70204999.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
To: magnus@hagander.net
Cc: bruce@momjian.us, alvherre@commandprompt.com, stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc,
	pgsql-www@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [DOCS] the sad state of our FAQs
From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > I am fine with whatever changes people suggestion;  the FAQ just isn't
> > updated that often for me to care where it resides.
> 
> I think that statement alone is a good indicator of why it has to be moved.
> 
> Some figures for the interested, btw.
> 
> The FAQ had ~7700 reads from ~6300 unique visitors last month.
> 
> These people received information that was simply incorrect. I think
> that's more than enough people to care about.
> 
> 
> As a reference point, the Windows FAQ on the wiki had ~6900 reads from
> ~5800 unique visitors (the most popular page on the wiki other than the
> frontpage). So I think it's pretty clear that putting it on the wiki
> doesn't make less people look at it - at least not with the link that's
> there from the main site.

I am suprised to see this number is so *small*. I guess the number of
PostgreSQL users on Windows are 10 times larger than any other
platforms at least. So if your theory is correct, I think Windows FAQ
accesses should be 10 times larger.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan