show/hide this revision's text 2 added 787 characters in body

You should write the text for your FAQ page and other static pages you plan to have (an "about" page perhaps). Your SE site comes with a default FAQ page, but you'll probably want to change much of it. The default editing-help page is fine as is.

Here are some static pages you might want (this is Community Wiki, so feel free to add to the list):

  • Editing help (just the default)
  • FAQ
  • Known Issues (list of bugs users should know about). You don't really need to write this in advance.
  • Attribution page. In my case, I'm using the cc-wiki license, and this page is to explain how to cite site content. I guess this would be a licensing page in general.
  • News. If you don't have a separate blog for the site, you can make a news page.
  • Beta. A page explaining that the site (and the underlying software) is in beta, so users should be forgiving and report bugs (if they aren't already on the known issues page). I also have a system message screaming to people that the site is beta and linking to this static page.
show/hide this revision's text 1 [made Community Wiki]

You should write the text for your FAQ page and other static pages you plan to have (an "about" page perhaps). Your SE site comes with a default FAQ page, but you'll probably want to change much of it. The default editing-help page is fine as is.