<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Thought: If there's a typo on a page, would someone use the same system? While I love the idea of creating a prominent "report this page for updates" link / button, I think we'll end up with pages reported without a clear idea of whether it's a one-line typo / grammar error or a multi-paragraph rewrite. </SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">I'm a doc newbie, of course, so take this with a grain of salt :) Maybe adding a comment field with "Submit suggestions for updates" would encourage readers to add a specific update instruction?</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Hope this helps,</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "> Dave.<BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>------------------------</DIV><DIV>Dave Chakrabarti</DIV><DIV>Director of Programs</DIV><DIV>Grassroots.org</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 8, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Ben Feldman wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE cite="mid:3861c6770708080714v53923bc4vb6cb778f3d9512c6@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <PRE wrap="">Also, I think if a common user could flag a handbook as "needs updated",
it would come in use. Before I was a maintainer, I viewed handfuls of
handbook pages that needed updated, but I didn't know who to notify. It
would be useful to have a link for "needs updated", or something
similar, so that maintainers could be notified. All flagged handbook
pages would be compiled into a page, sorted by number of flags.
</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE wrap="">This sounds great to me as well. We have the "suggest documentation
improvements" link in the bottom of the left sidebar along with a
couple other things. I'd prefer seeing that in the content area just
under each handbook page and above any comments. That's the place
where people will be thinking about it and might act on it. The
bottom of the left sidebar is a place where, even after viewing
hundreds of handbook pages, I didn't know it existed</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE> I think this is an absolutely great idea! And while something similar exists, I think the fact that it sends you to the issues page would either be too confusing, or seems like too much work--like you'd have to point out what needs to be updated and what it should be updated to, if you know what I mean.<BR> <BR> How about this? There is a simple "Add page to update queue" link (with better wording) at the location you noted, Greg, that when click automatically adds an issue to our Issues page with simply a link to the handbook page and a little text saying "such and such a user submitted this handbook page for updates."<BR> <BR> I, too, would be more willing to act upon old information if this kind of a system existed.<BR> <PRE class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Ben Feldman
Director, Go FLOSS!
<A class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ben@go-floss.org">ben@go-floss.org</A></PRE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Pending work: <A href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation/">http://drupal.org/project/issues/documentation/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">List archives: <A href="http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/">http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>