FAQ-essays

[Neil Ward]

Jennifer wrote, about the FAQ essays:

<<I would like to know the progress of these essays. Really dying to 
read them (the only thing I miss in the Lexicon - nevertheless a 
devoted fan of it - just 16, I need guidance... :) - is detailed 
analyses of the HPcharacters).>>

Hi Jennifer,

This project has stretched out way beyond its original schedule, but 
it will be done.  Although some of the FAQs are finished and updated 
to a fairly recent point, many more are in draft or simly "in 
progress".  

Every day, people are adding more thoughts to the list, so it's very 
hard to draw a line and say "that's it - nothing else goes into the 
FAQ!" The number of messages on the main list has increased from 
around 7,000 when we started the project to about 24,000 at present 
(i.e. all the messages on the present list, plus those in the 
archives), so you can imagine the work involved in categorising all 
these messages by topic and condensing the points made into readable 
summaries.

What we do have is a set of 30+ character sketches prepared by list 
members to lead off our weekly discussions.  I keep meaning to 
prepare a table of links to these messages, as I have for the chapter 
summaries, but I haven't found the time.  As soon as I've done that, 
I'll let you know.

As for the FAQs, watch this space!

Neil
HPfGU FAQ Team/Moderator Team