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[Benny Hult <hultbe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 22:26:27 +0000
Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:43:15 +1000
> Jared Norris <jrnorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 5 December 2011 06:17, amjjawad HOOHAA <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I don't use it nor need it :)
> > > Someone already posted on my thread that Lubuntu FAQs (Wiki) need
> > > to be updated according to the link I mentioned
> > > (http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html)
> > > Since I have never used JAVA on Linux, I'm asking those who are
> > > using it to check whether we need to update our Wiki or not?
> > >
> > > So, again, please double check this:
> > > http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/things-to-tweak-after-installing-ubuntu.html
> > >
> > > and if necessary, update this:
> > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Guides#Some_Java_applications_don.27t_work.2C_I_want_proprietary_Oracle_Java
> > >
> > > I didn't update the Wiki because I'm not sure because I don't use
> > > Java :)
> > >
> > > Thanks :)
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > This is the very big problem I see with having a separate FAQ to the
> > main information on the wiki. Unless it's specific to Lubuntu I
> > really don't see why it should exist on our FAQ area at all. All
> > this does is duplicate information AND reduce the number of people
> > working on a topic. This is a perfect example because the proper
> > Java page [0] was updated a while ago to reflect the changes.
> > 
> > So my opinion is, unless it's specific to Lubuntu we should
> > contribute and rely on the community documentation for *Ubuntu
> > instead of trying to carve out our own little niche that will
> > easily be out of date and hard to maintain with fewer resources.
> > (To answer your question my suggestion would be to remove the java
> > section altogether, if you HAVE to have something, link to the main
> > page for Java).
> > 
> > [0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java
> > 
> Couldn't agree more Jared.  Repeating the same information over and
> over in different places is not helpful.  Users who aren't quite sure
> what their problem is end up 'not seeing the wood for the trees.'
> This is the sort of thing a decent index is helps with.
> 
> 

FAQ is still targeted for IRC users.
People come and asks for the same question time after time. That's why
I created it. But if you feel there's no point in it, I wish you will
completely remove it from the wiki area, as you
mailing-list besserwissers seems to have a better solution for this.