User talk:Dave

"Please add some USB Card Readers devices to this page!

Does the Microtech Zio suppose to work?"

Please don't post questions or requests as article contents. Article contents should contain information. The LQ Wiki HCL is deprecated, anyway. You want the LQ HCL and LinuxQuestions can be found by clicking on the first navigation link at the top of pages or the 'forum' button at the very top. ( http://www.linuxquestions.org/ ).

Digiot 11:40, Mar 22, 2004 (EST)

The "linux questions" part of the site is at http://linuxquestions.org or you can get there by clicking on the "Linux Forum" link in the LQ navigation section on the left. Most (or even all) open source projects have a bugs or features request forum or mailing list somewhere on their site. The Linux operating system isn't a unified whole, it's a collection of many individual projects bundled together. If you're a non-coder like me, you might want to look into doing a software bounty on a feature or bug you really care about. Having a LQ complaints section wouldn't be that effective (except to vent) because we have no guarantee of a project's developers ever looking at it. If you have a complaint how the LQ or the LQwiki is run, that's different. For the LQ itself, there is a website forum over at the LQ forums. I'd tell you more, but I'm not really a member of the LQ, just the LQwiki. If you have a complaint about the LQwiki, then the official place to do it is the LQwiki mailing list: http://lists.linuxquestions.org/mailman/listinfo/lqwiki-list

I'm also trying to get a LQwiki forum going: Forums. I intend for it to be a place for informal discussion. Think of it as a "town tavern". The official place for policy discussions and such is the mailing list, but that might change if enough traffic gets going in the forum. Even in that case, I expect that official policies discussions are going to be only a small part of what goes on there - provided I can ever get someone in there other than me!

About "complaining" in a wiki: Most of the time, any contributor has the ability to do something. So you really need to see if you can handle it yourself. Even if you can't handle it yourself and you need help, you'd better be willing to do the lion's share of the work, or the other contributors aren't going to take you seriously. Secondly, you need the other person's help, so your main job is to convince them, not prove that you're right. You'd be better off asking "Why don't you..." instead of "This is stupid! You need to do it this way!" Even if you have a good idea, nobody is going to listen to you if you insult them! I see this happen on at least a daily basis over at the Wikipedia. And there might even be a good reason why things are done in the current way, so you also need to be open to changing your mind. Or at least going along with the consensus view if nobody agrees with you. This probably applies to any "complaining" but especially with wikis. Crazyeddie 13:44, Oct 3, 2004 (EDT)