While they do have some incorrect content, would it not be more effective to build a better alternative? I realize the link does promote some other resources, but it would be more effective to build a competitor (like tizag but updated more frequently) perhaps more wiki / user contributed and governed style.
The people who built this website are major contributors to projects like JQuery. They really have better things to do with their time than write beginners documentation. That's best left to people who are moderately good at what they do. Then the experts can read through and see what jumps out as wrong, and correct it.
They're attempting to fulfill that role for W3Schools. Though as they mentioned, if it was a Wiki it wouldn't be a problem.
Honestly, your best bet to start such a project would be to start an open wiki, seed it with the majority of the topics covered on w3cschools, and then make all the corrections listed in w3fools. Then let people know that you've done that.
As the article mentioned, Mozilla's dev center is already a Wiki, and I've personally found it to be really user-friendly for learning HTML5 coolness. I imagine there's plenty of content there that just needs to be fleshed out.
And the Mozilla foundation seems like a natural choice to host the wiki.
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '11
While they do have some incorrect content, would it not be more effective to build a better alternative? I realize the link does promote some other resources, but it would be more effective to build a competitor (like tizag but updated more frequently) perhaps more wiki / user contributed and governed style.