Nice, thanks @InfernoTerra
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There’s lots of great feedback coming in here. Thank you guys! If you have more to share, def keep it coming
So far, it’s looking like there are definitely ways we could improve the text/screenshots/etc for these topics, on a case by case basis (making certain options clearer, explaining file paths better, that kind of thing) - all that is pretty topic-dependent but will definitely still inform the best practices.
Looking at it more broadly, a lot of the issues come down to tech moving fast… so fast that, even when something is tested thoroughly at the time of editing, it’s not quite right (or very wrong!) only a few weeks or months later. There are also lots of variations with slightly different devices, like variations of Android, and each variation changes over time, too, so it gets even more tricky.
Those are tough problems to fix, but hopefully not insurmountable. It’s likely we’ll need to up our game testing more and more of these tech topics out as time goes on (and re-testing after platform updates/changes, and on lots of different devices!)… So watch this space if you’re game to do more tech testing!
In general, raising the alert when something is no longer up to date is a super way to help around here, too… if you find something you’re able to fix, of course, go for it. Dive right in to get it up to date! But if you find something that’s outdated and you can’t fix it, definitely feel free to let me know on my talk page. I can prod the right people, based on whatever priorities they’re juggling at the time, to hopefully get articles updated quickly where needed (or stubbed until they can be updated, if it’s going to take a little longer). With so many articles out there, it’s not an easy challenge we’ve set ourselves [teaching the world how to anything
;)], but we’ll keep at it!
