First FAQ Draft

Fri Sep 8 02:29:56 UTC 2000

Hi --

I've edited Heidi's Geography FAQ & uploaded it in Word.  Wondering if
we should make some standardization decisions while we're all early on
in the process --

1.  Heidi had said "Messages: 5445, 5667, N32, N111" with the "N" meant
to distinguish the new egroups from the old Yahoo messages (I presume
anyway).  I changed it so that it says "See Yahoo Messages (URL to
Archives): xx, yy, zz."  I then started a new line and said "See also
Egroups Messages (URL to Homepage): aa, bb, cc."

Does this make sense?  Does anyone have any better ideas?  We obviously
need to be clear about where people can find the messages, so I thought
the URLs might be helpful.  But, if that's cumbersome & someone has a
better thought, I'm open to suggestions.

2.  Heidi also used "Book III" or "Book IV."  I was in the process of
changing them to PoA & GoF, respectively, when I got to the first
reference to Book 1.  If we adopt my method of using the standard
abbreviations that we use on the list, should we call Book 1 as PS or
SS?  I opted for PS (as I've always thought it was so ridiculous that
they changed the title over here).  But, should we go back to Heidi's
system instead to avoid confusion?

Heidi -- You'll see that I mainly added some white space -- formatting.
Melanie may have other ideas when she starts looking at the HTML
conversion.  I like white space though.  <g>

The only substantive change I made was to the Burrow section -- you'll
see what I did I think.  I was an active participant in those
discussions as it was right before we left for England.

> While we were having all the Yahoo problems I decided to unsubscribe.
> Now I cannot resubscribe and so cannot get into any of the chats!

Simon -- sorry you're unable to resubscribe.  I guess Yahoo is still
messed up & noone can join?  I wonder why the Club stats show that
people have been joining virtually every day since we moved to egroups?
Makes no sense, does it?

> I am at the moment working on the predictions for books 5,6 and 7 FAQ
> and
> the major decision I seem to have is whether to make it one page or
> one for each book. The matter is complicated, as some predictions do
> not really fall into being in one book or another. Ideas?

I think, based on the little that I remember about the prediction
discussions, that it might be easier to not divide them by book.  So
many of the predictions are just predictions for a "later book" & not
specific to 5, 6 or 7.

Neil -- I do agree with the idea of listing out each wand, spell,
magical device, magical creature, etc. & then just listing whatever is
known or has been discussed about each one.  Sort of like small
encyclopedia entries.  Then, there can be one link at the bottom of the
FAQ to the Lexicon or Jenna's Encyclopedia, etc.  Simon is right - I
suppose we should approach both Jenna & Steve soon & be sure they are
okay with us linking to their respective sites.  Anyone want to
volunteer to do this?  Good luck getting a response from Jenna.  <g>

Heidi -- I do think it would be great for you to add some legal analysis
to the Stouffer FAQ.  I'm sure I don't need to tell you to heap loads of
qualifiers into whatever you say though.  <g>

I'm tackling Wizarding World - Govt next I think.  I agree with Heidi's
thoughts to save Wizarding World -- General for last.  You'll have seen
all the other Wizarding World FAQs by that point & will know what still
hasn't been addressed.  Speaking of the Gov't FAQ -- can anyone tell me
if it's possible (Melanie?  <g>) for me to have an org chart of sorts
included (you know, with the little boxes & the connecting lines)?  Is
this something that could be graphically done in HTML if I draw it out
longhand?  I might be able to access a software program that will do
this, but I have *no* idea if it would then convert to the necessary
HTML easily or not.  Thoughts?

Okay -- that's it for tonight.

Penny
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