Re: FAQs - archive

[Yanai Krutman <yanai@BGUMAIL.BGU.AC.IL>]

Hi netters,

Ludwik idea seems to me very interesting, but how to make this
a reality? it could take time??


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> Date:    Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:43:51 -0400
> From:    Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
> Subject: Re: ?FAQs?
>
> It occurred to me that the FAQ format is not necessarily the
> best for supplementing the PHYS-L archive. A better way
> would be a list of categories, for example, names of chapters
> and sections and subsections from a typical textbook. The
> list could be posted as a webpage. Each category would be
> a link to a page with links to related PHYS-L messages.
>
> In fact, a real textbook could be more useful to teachers
> if it provided an instrument for fetching the PHYS-L
> messages according to its content. A good project for a
> group of veterans. Perhaps it can even be sponsored by
> NSF, a publisher, or another agency. Links to articles
> published in The Physics Teacher could be added to
> the instrument in order to increase its usefulness.
> Ludwik Kowalski
>
> > I agree with Yanai that it would be very very useful to create
> > the FAQs archive for phys-L. Perhaps somebody is willing
> > to undertake this big job and make the archive available on
> > a webpage somewhere.
> >
> > Yanai Krutman wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there any kind of FAQs archive for phys-l?
> > > If not why?
> > >
> > > I think that a FAQs physics-l archive will be a good place
> > > for many questions and examples. What do you think about?

Dan is proposing read the archives, but consulting FAQs is more
productive in terms of time! Am I right?? Somebody is interested in
organize and administrate it?

> ...well, there is the archives at
> http://mailgate.nau.edu/
> I assume you have read the PHYS-L homepage at
> http://purcell.phy.nau.edu/phys-l
>
> If someone wants to edit together FAQs from PHYS-L postings, or whatever
> I am willing to host them on purcell and link to them from the phys-l
> homepage, or if you want to hiost them elsewhere and I just link to them
> that'd be ok too.
>
> I don't see myself collecting FAQs unless they can be published somehow,
> myself. (That new faculty publish-or-perish thing, you know...)
> Certainly I encourage others to take this on if willing...
>
> Dan M
>
>
> Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
> danmac@nau.edu          http://purcell.phy.nau.edu         PHYS-L list owner
>
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Leigh wants to use other FAQs archive, may be the discussions here
are/were quite different??

> Date:    Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:35:41 -0700
> From:    Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>
> Subject: Re: ?FAQs?
>
> There exists a FAQ archive in the newsgroup sci.physics which has some
> very good articles. I don't have the URL, but someone else likely has.
>
> Leigh
>
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I would take a look, thank you!
> Date:    Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:35:18 -0500
> From:    Doug Craigen <dcc@ESCAPE.CA>
> Subject: Re: ?FAQs?
>
> There are many mirrors, here is one:
> http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/faq.html

> Leigh Palmer wrote:
> > There exists a FAQ archive in the newsgroup sci.physics which has some
> > very good articles. I don't have the URL, but someone else likely has.
> >
> > Leigh
>
> --

Please comments, new ideas?

Yanai

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Yanai Krutman
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Faculty of Health Sciences
yanai@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Be'er Sheva -- Israel
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