I think there is a distinction between FAQ and the Wiki. For one the actual comprehended meaning of them. Maybe we could included the most FAQ into a section on the Wiki, and possibly end up making a lot of links from the FAQ to entries in the Wiki.
The collection of information(aka the Wiki) is a unlimited potential of information, while the FAQ should answer the most frequency asked questions which could be derived from the forums here. The FAQ should change with time as new technologies come and go it would simply reflect the up to date
most frequently asked questions.
We should set a limit to the number of FAQ items so that only the most important ones are listen and hopefully in a perfect world in the correct order of number of times asked, but that is just impossible. But with out a set limit the entire collection of information would turn into a FAQ except with out priority to the number of times asked.
So the FAQ is a specialized form of a collection of information, and in our case can be made with out redundancy by using links into the existing collection of information where appropriate and even in cases for extra information.
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There were once two wiki's. One was the OSFAQ, at mega-tokyo, the other the OSDev Wiki, over here. When MT decided to move the operating systems over here, we had the situation where there were 2 wikis at one site, with overlapping contents, which is just stupid.
There was really just a FAQ being a specialized form of a collection of specialized information using Wiki software. While the later is a collection of specialized information. The specialized form is simply just a different format from the specialized collection of information by sorting based on the number of times someone asked a question relating to information that could be specialized specialized information in the specialized collection of information.
I confused myself. ..
And to note "Wiki" has nothing to do with collection of information (at least directly) but rather ease of editing if I remember correctly. So we need a FAQ and a collection of information in which the FAQ is answered with, and we derive the sorting of the FAQ from the forums or other mediums where questions are asked for our very specialized topic.
COLLECTION<->FAQ<->FORUMS
With out the forums (or other mediums that may be used) and the collection of information the FAQ does not exist. The mega-tokyo actually stored the collection of information in the forums themselves if anywhere in the scope of mega-tokyo.com, and of course out of scope in other places such as the well known osdever.net
Which also
at the least partially answers Solar's original concern (from what I understand) which is how does a beginner spend more energy on learning something rather then looking for it.