Shrink the FAQ

The wiki FAQ entries have been transferred to the main website FAQ. Now the page needs to be improved.

• Add all subheads to the top of the FAQ for easier navigation.
• Delete entries that are outdated, no longer relevant, or not frequently asked on the help desk.
• Consolidate Tor Browser and Tor Browser 3 subsections.
• Move sha256sum verification to the signature verification section.
• Migrate information on setting up a relay to a dedicated page.
• Migrate Abuse questions to the Abuse faq and kill the subsection.
• Dedicated page for Alternate designs we don't do yet.
• Kill Compilation and installation subsection.
• Consolidate questions that duplicate answers.

changed milestone to %website redesign

added FAQ SponsorO component::webpages/website milestone::website redesign owner::mttp priority::medium resolution::wontfix severity::normal status::closed type::defect website-content labels

I removed the outdated FAQ entry "Vidalia asks for a password". https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2014-May/074381.html

I removed these FAQ entries: "Will Torbutton be available for other browsers?" "I want to leave Tor Browser Bundle running but close the browser."

I collaped the entry "I need an HTTP proxy. Where did Polipo go?" into the existing entry "I want to run another application through Tor."

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2014-May/074481.html

Replying to mttp:

• Add all subheads to the top of the FAQ for easier navigation.
• Delete entries that are outdated, no longer relevant, or not frequently asked on the help desk.
• Consolidate Tor Browser and Tor Browser 3 subsections.
• Move sha256sum verification to the signature verification section.
• Migrate information on setting up a relay to a dedicated page.
• Migrate Abuse questions to the Abuse faq and kill the subsection.
• Dedicated page for Alternate designs we don't do yet.
• Kill Compilation and installation subsection.
• Consolidate questions that duplicate answers.

When Sebastian mentioned splitting the FAQ up into a bunch of pages, I didn't like the idea. But he's pointed me at this ticket, and all of the above items look like good ideas to do.

That said, "Migrate Abuse questions to the Abuse faq and kill the subsection." -- right now we have only the questions listed on the main faq, and it points to the abuse faq for answers. That way if you're searching or skimming the faq for your question about abuse, you're more likely to find that we have an answer to it. Is that a good policy to continue, or will that lead to an unbalanced faq with 100 questions and only 20 answers? "Hm."

Trac:
Severity: N/A to Normal
Reviewer: N/A to N/A
Sponsor: N/A to N/A
Keywords: N/A deleted, #website-content added

Trac:
Keywords: #website-content deleted, website-content added

Trac:
Milestone: N/A to website redesign

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, FAQ added

Hi, i think this deserves an update.

The wiki FAQ entries have been transferred to the main website FAQ. Now the page needs to be improved. Add all subheads to the top of the FAQ for easier navigation. Delete entries that are outdated, no longer relevant, or not frequently asked on the help desk. Consolidate Tor Browser and Tor Browser 3 subsections. Move sha256sum verification to the signature verification section.

From my perspective these are done.

Migrate information on setting up a relay to a dedicated page.

This content already migrated to TorRelayGuide (see #21519 (moved))

Migrate Abuse questions to the Abuse faq and kill the subsection.

I took care of that: https://github.com/torproject/webwml/pull/17

Dedicated page for Alternate designs we don't do yet.

Maybe in the wiki?

Kill Compilation and installation subsection.

Where should it go, i see two options:

• https://torproject.org/docs/manual.html is empty
• https://torproject.org/download/download.html

Consolidate questions that duplicate answers.

Good idea, do you see any?

Trac:
Status: new to needs_review

Since my PR got merged we got left:

• Dedicated page for Alternate designs we don't do yet.
• Kill Compilation and installation subsection.
• Consolidate questions that duplicate answers.

Trac:
Status: needs_review to new

Closing in favor of #28549 (moved).

Trac:
Resolution: N/A to wontfix
Status: new to closed

closed

mentioned in issue #11170 (moved)

mentioned in issue #11398 (moved)

mentioned in issue #21519 (moved)

mentioned in issue #28549 (moved)

moved to tpo/web/trac#10990 (closed)