Hi,
How does a topic (or question) becomes a MS Knowledge Base article?
This question has the following background:
I may say that my learning of Fox had three main milestones: the
first one when I could get a copy of Mirian Liskin's "PC Magazine Programming Foxpro 2.0" (that was my first Fox book, back in 1990-91, I guess), the
second one (when I got in the internet) when I start searching Microsoft's MSDN Knowledge Base (at that time I was beginning to lear VFP, about 3-4 years ago) and the
third one when I started attending at UT (feb 2001).
It was fundamental to me having good sources of knowledge, and each one listed in my so called "milestones" have different characteristics.
The first one represents the more conventional way of geting information, as a book, that can drive you in a progressive path of information and learning, I may say like a course (it represents a source for searches, too).
The second one is driven by specific subjects that could be searched in a somewhat large base of knowledge that was built upon previous needs of information about a broad range of questions.
The third one is a "live", knowledge base. Of course at UT you can find information stored as FAQs, downloads etc (like in MS's MSDN), but what calls my attention most is the huge capacity of "ad hoc" problem solving that the great people at UT, helping others, deliver. That has no match, in my opinion (besides that you are pleased to share the same place as them)!
I'm asking
"How does an MSDN article is born?" because I was wondering: UT has about some 400,000 thread messages stored (I don't recall where got this number, so please correct me if I'm wrong), can you imagine the large knowledge base all these messages represent? Could be a good idea to make a continuous compilation of threads and keep creating articles based on the results of this compilation, that could be easily searched and referenced? Could this turn into another UT's section/service?
Thanks for the time (and patience) you spent reading all this!
Regards,
Fernando
