Re: Proposal for building knowledgebase website.

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Gevik Babakhani" <gevik(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Subject: Re: Proposal for building knowledgebase website.
Date: 2005-06-08 18:21:19
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C7624@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > Any real reason it needs to be searchable more than the rest of the
> > site?
>
> Yeah, so that people can type things like:
> "audit triggers" or "SSL connection" or "pg_restore bug" and
> get relevant
> KB items. The current FAQ pretty much requires you to read
> the whole
> darned thing to find the info you want.

Well, I can type "audit triggers" into the website search. Gives me hits
in the docs. The point is - one search engine only please ;-)

> > Partially.
> > The website itself supports language negotiation. This is
> *not* used
> > for the FAQs today. They are pulled from the main CVS, and
> just linked
> > separately each file. This is partially because since they
> are pulled
> > from CVS it's the only way, partially because the FAQs are almost
> > always in different stages of updating so ppl who want to read a
> > non-english FAQ probablyi want the english FAQ *as well*.
>
> Hmmmm. Makes sense. So each KB item should display in its orginal
> language as well as the current translation?

That seems like a good way to do it - if we even get translations. A lot
of work was put into putting a translation infrastructure for the
webpage in place, but AFAIK not a single page (except the FAQs which
aren't in the actual website) has been translated.

//MAgnus

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