Guidance to users, simple but effective

[hrayon]

Hello
Categories in the forum, next or close to the title, could have one or more links to the wiki documentation. Or a pinned first post with a brief explanation with such links.
Many questions could be avoided if one read the wiki for that subject.
For example, the LCL category could have the link:
https://wiki.freepascal.org/LCL

Databases:
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Databases

And so on.

[MarkMLl]

Well volunteered that man!

We've needed somebody to check that all wiki pages are up to date for ages, so we all appreciate that you're taking that on.

Until you've got that done: THE WIKI IS NOT DOCUMENTATION.

MarkMLl

[lainz]

The wiki is not documentation, but where is the documentation?

[dsiders]

The wiki is not documentation, but where is the documentation?

Look to your left...

[hrayon]

Ok, change the term "wiki" to "official documentation", the proposal is the same.
I don't have experience with documentation, I don't know if I know enough about lazarus/fpc to indicate the best way to solve problems. Anyway, here:

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Main_Page

this is written:

"...The goal of this Wiki is to collect and store the knowledge necessary for the productive use of Free Pascal, Lazarus and related projects. The Wiki is intended to be the first port of call for users looking for information on how to use the tools provided by those projects...."

Let it be the left menu documentation then. The novice forum user with a problem wants the problem solved. Whether it was on the wiki or the official documentation doesn't matter.

Or even an experienced user like lainz.

Whoever has mastery over the category, or at least has an overview of where the category fits, is the person who created it and is probably the best person to provide the links and guidance.

Or just to justify the acronym RTFM.

[lainz]

Unfortunatelly there is no documentation (and no time to do it) for most of bgracontrols projects, so we make demos and wikis.

So for me +1 to wiki.