On Sun, 30 May 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: > Surprisingly, there were very few from the mailing lists in the first > Google 50 hits. As I mentioned there, the objective of the search is > not to compare which is more "popular" but simply to present the fact > that, when people go to Google and do a simple search, they tend to > see Forum posts. This in turn means we need to make sure there are no > misleading or inappropriate answers. So, you can help there, too. Interesting observation, but the forum content is additive, and so filled with blind alleys for a indexing engine that cannot distinguish supposition and mistake from authoritative content. Without the editor's pen to excise errors, we just have mass there; compare contra the wiki where there is at least the possibility of revision [What? R P Herrold liking some aspect of a wiki? Is there an impersonation?] and better (bug slower) feeding changes through the proper bug tracker [so that minor ephemeral edits to not get forgotten] into a long lived work (upstream 'man' and 'info' pages, the increasingly good upstream manuals) Also I see a lot of 'boilerplate' in first responses in the forums adminishing people to read the instructions, and welcoming people which has the effect of increasing bulk but not adding light. I do not see merit in the fact that Google, for example, has 15000 hits for: "site:centos.org welcome to the CentOS fora" ... and it is not at all clear that this is the correct plural to anyone but a pedant with a bit of grammar school Latin willing to confuse non-native speakers of English -- Russ herrold