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From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
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Subject: Re: the sad state of our FAQs
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Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> If you are suggesting that you remove well-maintained localized FAQs
> together, then I against it. We should remove unmaintained localized
> FAQs first IMO.

I was just suggesting moving all of them them and only link to those 
that are reasonably well maintained.
So for a well maintained faq like the japanese one the only thing that 
would change is that you can translate it directly in the wiki instead 
of sending a patch to bruce.

> 
> The discussion about English FAQ's state is completely another story,
> though.

well it's clearly related because there is a direct relation
  between the source (the english one) and the translations.


Stefan