| FaithFAQ update |
[07 Aug 2004|12:49am] |
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Volunteers Wanted
We still need help. I have put a notice
on the current website asking for help. Eventually, I might post on R+F
and ask again. Feel free to post it yourself, if you desire -- on R+F or
interfaith communities online. We really need more volunteers contributing
to this, especially in the area of writing copy.
If you haven't already claimed a religion to
write on, please post now and claim one (I'll let you know if there's any issues
with it). If you claimed one already and haven't finished (or started),
please work on it? It's not that long and I would really like
to get this up as soon as possible.
Development
The "new" FaithFAQ, as it stands now,
looks like this. As you can see, we
are missing a lot of information. I am working on doing statistics as we
speak. We still need: descriptions of history/beliefs for all the religions,
FAQ for many, statistics for many, expansion of the recommended reading for most
(some more than others). Feel free (beg, beg) so offer any of these: sources,
links, books, ideas, commentary, anything.
To save time, I compacted a lot of categories
that had very little information on them into a few general categories.
Namely, this one and this
one. Eventually, I hope to make a seperate page for every entry on the
title bar, but until then... entries without their own page link back to one of
these two pages.
I added a "hot issues" page.
Currently, I just have listed some issues. I'm not sure where we'll go with
that. Maybe a discussion forum? Not sure. It could be essays
in the future... but I have reservations about that. No offense to Shawn,
but I really don't want to end up like EqualBilt or whatever his URL is.
Any ideas are welcome. This section might eventually be removed if we don't
think of a really good relevant place for it.
I'm going to start cleaning up some of the language
on the questions and answers. Some of it is really sarcastic, which is great
for R+F... but not so great of an image for a budding interfaith site. And
just in case you're curious: the original R+F FAQ will be saved. And placed
somewhere. I wish I still had the very original one.
Emails
As you can see from the contact
page, I want all writers to have their own email address so readers can contact
you. I will make this address a forwarder; it will forward to a mailbox
you already have... any one you like. The person emailing you will not
know your real address unless you choose to reply. Please reply with your
first name and the box address you wish it to forward to (all addressed will be yourname@faithfaq.com) so I can set you
up. You may choose to give out this forwarding address for other purposes,
too.
Critique
I have put up my written copy on the about
page for FaithFAQ's goals and history. Please critique it if you feel
the need... suggestions/criticism welcome.
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| Claim your sections! |
[16 Jun 2004|11:19pm] |
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The new page is now up at www.faithfaq.com/temp.
Have a look if you'd like.
Basic beliefs/history text needs written for each religion
Some sections need FAQs and all of them need editing
I have recommended reading for some of them,
and it needs to be put up. For some, I have none.
If anyone wants to claim the beliefs/history
main page for any specific faith, let me know. I'd like to get those pages
up as soon as possible, but of course that depends on our writers. Hopefully
by the end of summer.
If any of your read this journal, please drag
your friends here. A lot of people contacted me about helping but never
friended this journal. Get them, too. It's summer. I'm fairly
certain everyone is out of school now.
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| Working on Menu/Topics |
[08 Jun 2004|05:29pm] |
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The menu for the website will be a top navigational
bar menu, with drop down links. To the left is the working categories and
sub-categories... black will be the main heading, grey will refer to the drop
down menu.
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Home/Intro Page
About Faithfaq.com
Search Faithfaq.com |
| General Religion |
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General Religion
Religion and Science
Religious Rights |
| Religions A-M |
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Buddhism
Christianity
Confucianism
Hinduism
Islam
Jainism
Judaism |
| Religions N-Z |
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Neo-Paganism
Satanism
Shintoism
Vodun/Voodoo
Wicca
Zoroastrianism |
| Misc (Title Suggestions?) |
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Essay Submissions
Religion and Faith
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Can anyone think of any major religions I left
off? I'm not doing individual pages for sub-sects or all the various pagan
religions, but we'll make sure to include links and whatnot if someone is interested
in something more specific than "Neo-Paganism" or whatever. If
they aren't sure where to go, there will be the search feature so they can search
the site either way. Can you think of any that are popular enough to warrant
exception? I think maybe Wicca should get its own category simply because
of the volume of them online.
Also, each religion will split into:
- Introduction (Beliefs/History)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Statistics and Misc Info
- Further Information (books/links)
I don't think I'll put these splits on the menu,
though. Too many sub-categories gets distracting.
Any suggestions on organisation past this?
Rewording suggestions? More subcategories for "Misc"? More
for "general"? I was thinking of putting "Religious Mysticism"
under "General" since it's so popular but can encompass a variety of
religions.
Also, Jon is going to be in charge of a section
on essay submissions; what we'll do is post a topic once every so often (the goal
is one a month, but we'll probably do one every 4 or 6 months until we get more
hits) and people from various religions can write in an send in a short essay
on that topic. We'll "publish" the best/more researched.
He'll be in charge of coordinating that, including arranging a review board to
go over submissions.
If you haven't joined this community yet and
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| ... and another thing... |
[29 Apr 2004|02:26pm] |
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Oh!
If any of you OWN any religion-related photos
and would like to "donate" them to the site, it would be appreciated.
I have a limited supply of religion images from photos.com that I am legally allowed
to use because I have a subscription to their website. But the photos are
very limited, especially if we're looking for specific things.
This means: only photos you have taken yourself
(or own the rights to). This is important; we can't just rip images
off google or scan them out of books to use.
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| Working on Layout |
[29 Apr 2004|02:22pm] |
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Okay, we're not going to start writing for awhile...
but for those of you lurking, we need to work on a way to order the site.
The page layout will be similar to how it is now (with some of the classifications
split, like "Eastern Faiths"), but there will be more than just the
FAQ and recommended reading... it will have multiple pages under each religion.
Working ideas subpages that I have now are:
- Introduction
- Beliefs Overview
- Basic History
- Statistics/Misc Info
- FAQ (similar to what it is now)
- Further Information (recommended books/links)
I was thinking that on the introduction page,
which each menu will link to, it'll have (of course) very basic introduction to
the religion, and then links to the above pages (or they can click through them
in succession). Something like
this. Any other ideas? Comments?
I'm thinking maybe stats and the faq should be combined,
but I don't know yet. We'll see on the imput from everyone else.
Lastly: if you know anyone who might want to help on this
project and is either good at research or knows a decent amount about the topic,
please link them to the community info. We have about seven volunteers right
now but I'm pretty sure we can stir up more... at the very least for the comment/critiquing
if they can't write copy.
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[26 Apr 2004|05:23pm] |
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The domain has been progated and the
website is currently up (though it's the same thing found at the old URL right
now).
More updates to come.
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| Also! |
[25 Apr 2004|07:39pm] |
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Please read the community
info as well as the
post below. Also: new posters must be approved before posted access
is granted. This is to prevent spammers, which livejournal gets a lot of
nowadays.
Some basic information about the site for those
of you that don't really pay attention: The current FAQ page is found at http://www.homiegfunk.com/RF.
This is a subdirectory of my current homepage. Not the page place for a
serious website. So, I purchased the
domain name faithfaq.com, though I intend
for us to elaborate it past a simple FAQ. Right now the domain is propagating;
I will move the current FAQ to that URL when it is ready.
We will begin working on copy text probably around
June. Until then, feel free to suggest websites/books/whatever (rules on
doing so in the community info).
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| Hi Everyone! |
[25 Apr 2007|05:52pm] |
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Thank you for responding to my post.
I want things to be clear from the start, so this is an
overview of my plans with how this will work. Feel free to post comments.
What I'm aiming for shouldn't take mass amounts of time (as some of us are working
and going to school this summer, too). Work should be pretty evenly split up,
and it shouldn't require you to work any time other than when you feel like it
(no chat rooms, no unreasonable deadlines, etc). This is a volunteer effort,
so it should be convenient.
What I think I'm going to do (and suggestions are welcome), is have individual
people write smaller sections of copy, then we'll post it here and everyone can
post commentary/critiques on each other. I will be the ONLY editor so we
don't have battles over that. However, I'll go by majority vote on debated
issues so my biases don't influence things. We can use polls here to have
such votes. I'm really not sure it'll need much editing after all the critiques.
Just insertion in the layout and uploading, which I'll do since it's my
FTP space.
I think that will effectively eliminate bias while still being the most efficient
way possible to do so.
So basically if you decide to help, you can write copy in your free time (and
it should be a pretty small section depending on how many people I get to help)
and then randomly critique others' at your convenience. I have yet to decide
how the copy will be divided up but that will come as we get more and more volunteers.
Please bookmark this page and check back periodically.
THANK YOU!
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