Editing QAWiki:Guide/Questions (section)

== Guidelines for creating questions  ==

Here are some tips for selecting and writing questions.

=== Selecting questions ===

The focus of QAWiki is currently on collecting factual-style questions that are answerable on knowledge bases such as Wikidata. As such, subjective questions such as "''What is the best movie directed by Kubrick?''", procedural questions such as "''How can I tie a tie?''", or advice-seeking questions like "''How can I save money on flights?''", etc., are not currently the focus. However, it might be possible to define some related objective questions in such cases, e.g., "[[Item:Q422|''What movies directed by Stanley Kubrik won the most Academy Awards?'']]".

=== Question labels and aliases ===

The main label for the question should be quite specific, while aliases can provide more informal or concise ways to ask a question. A good example might be the main label "[[Item:Q422|''What movies directed by Stanley Kubrik won the most Academy Awards?'']]", which provides the full name of the director and explicitly mentions the director relation. On the other hand, an alias like "[[Item:Q422|''Which Kubrick movie won the most Oscars?'']]" intuitively captures the same intent, but less explicitly: only the director's last name is given, the director relation is implied, and the informal name "''Oscars''" is used instead of the more official "''Academy Awards''".

=== Questions for language variants ===

In general, we will assume that language variants inherit from the more general language code, and that there is no need to duplicate questions, aliases, etc., from the general language to a language variant. For example, for the question "[[Item:Q422|''Which Kubrick movie won the most Oscars?'' (<code>en</code>)]]", there is no need to duplicate the question to, e.g., (<code>en-UK</code>). However, in the case of [[Item:Q245|''What are the colors of the French flag?'' (<code>en</code>)]], adding [[Item:Q245|''What are the colours of the French flag?'' (<code>en-UK</code>)]] is welcome to capture the "''colo'''u'''r''" spelling variant.