Topics Already Covered

[flying_ford_anglia]

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No: HPFGUIDX C5508
From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Re: Topics Already Covered
Reply To: [Yahoo! #5487] Topics Already Covered
Date: 8/1/00 5:28 am  (ET)

<<Anyone have any suggestions for how to handle this? Should we add
something to the FAQs?>>

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I think it would be a good idea to gather together some of the more
common questions and answers (or summary of responses).

One suggestion I have is that we divide an 'FAQ' into three sections: -

(1) posts answering questions which come up repeatedly (how do you
pronounce 'Hermione' etc);

(2) posts to which have generated several theories (Gleam in Dumbledore's
eye? Order of emergence from Voldemort's wand);

(3) posts including background information (such as the Nicholas Flamel
stuff, or the conversion table for US/UK book pages);

My second suggestion is that we divide up the work somehow! We can't
expect Penny and Melanie to do it all.

How can we do this?

(1) We could all look through our own posts and come up with a list of
anything that seemed to be in one of those categories;

(2) We could divide the message board into chunks by message # and divvy
up the analytical work that way;

(3) We could all fire off lists from memory.

Option 2 would mean we could make this an active thing, deciding ahead
of time who will monitor messages 5500-6000 for example. Option 3 would
make it difficult to identify the messages themselves, so it would be
rather vague.

Once we have a list of topics, I guess they could be merged into one
list and, hopefully, most of the common themes would be apparent.

Well, hope that makes sense. It sounds like a lot of work, but, in the
absence of a search facility, it would save us repeating ourselves.

Neil