Wikipedia talk:Reference desk/How to ask a software question
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Mortense in topic Broken link
Different audience
editI suspect this page would be twice as useful if it were instead aimed at novice, confused computer users who are having trouble operating their machines, rather than at coders. I suspect coders are 12 times better at asking questions about computers than are novice users. Tempshill (talk) 04:43, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
- I agree with your last sentence, but this page was not aimed at that audience, and a page that covered both would scare off the non-developers. Perhaps a good move would be to copy this page to "How to ask a software development question", and then change this page's focus to software use. --Sean 18:48, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
- Yes. Though I'd call it 'computer use' rather than 'software use' because users won't have any idea whether their computer lockups are a 'software problem'. Tempshill (talk) 04:53, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- Oh right, good idea. When can you have that done by? :) --Sean 15:48, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- Yes. Though I'd call it 'computer use' rather than 'software use' because users won't have any idea whether their computer lockups are a 'software problem'. Tempshill (talk) 04:53, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
You missed a bit
editThe answer is given by using information which was never provided (specifically, the source code). I wouldn't be any good at writing an example code, so I leave it to someone who can... Vimescarrot (talk) 23:38, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
- Arg. The source code was actually removed by some dickhead spammer, but is back now. Thanks for the heads up. --Sean 05:39, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Broken link
editThe last external link appears to be (effectively) broken. There doesn't appear to be any real content on it.