Web Applications SE moderator here, who migrated the question to Meta SE as this question might be more appropriate for it for several reasons.
Meta Stack Exchange
The scope of this site is the whole Stack Exchange Network, but it does not go into the details of each site. The faq (from Meta SE) might be helpful for users of all sites but might not be appropriate to the particular needs site by site.
Many users are not tech-savvy. Asking users that are struggling to understand how a site works to navigate to another site could make things more confusing for some of them.
There are several initiatives and feature-requests related to address new-user needs like
By the other hand, beside the scope, Meta Stack Exchange is unique among all the Stack Exchange sites,
- It's the only "Meta" that award reputation to users
- It works as it's own "per-site meta"
It's the only site "main" site that has mandatory tags
Meta Stack Exchange Tour
The Meta Stack Exchange Tour sections are different:
- Welcome to Meta Stack Exchange
- Ask questions about issues that affect all Stack Exchange sites
- Be part of the community that decides how the sites work
- Tags make it easy to find interesting questions
- This looks similar but it isn't, as it explains the mandatory tags and the status tags.
- Voting is different on meta sites
- Unlock badges for special achievements
Web Applications
Since the end of the last year I become very concerned about the participation in Web Applications. I already made several posts about that and the FAQs that you refers are derived from them. Briefly, the idea in first place is to add explanations pointed to non-tech-savvy users that are new to Web Applications and to the Stack Exchange network. IMO, many of the FAQ in Meta SE posts might require to reworded to make them more appropriate for this audience.
The convenience of having a FAQ for the Tour results from my experience of reviewing for more than 8 years in Web Applications SE. I very frequently have found questions where the OP explicitly mentioned in one way or another not being teach savvy and on many opportunities of interacting with them have learned about the difficulties they have not only about the web application they are asking a question for, but for posting the question and learning the ropes of Web Applications SE.
Having a FAQ explaining each step of the tour is not a panacea (a remedy for all the difficulties) for the non-tech-savvy users, but it might help at least to make more evident to them that there is an active community interested on helping them.
By the way, here is the "intro" to the referred FAQs:
Please explain the Web Applications Tour in simple words
Summary
The Tour of Web Applications SE is specific for that site and even the title of the sections is standard. The FAQ about the Tour of Web Applications SE will address needs from non-tech-savvy users.
Use Meta Stack Exchange for
- Asking questions / participate in discussions (some fun is allowed) about Stack Exchange in general, like the Stack Exchange model, the network history, network wide events like winter-bash.
- Asking for site recommendations
- Report bug, make feature-request about the platform that powers the all the Stack Exchange sites.
Use per-site meta
Asking question / participate in discussions about the corresponding site. Please bear in mind that while there are common base rules for all Stack Exchange site, each site has its own workings based on their own culture and circumstances.
Kind request to versatile Stack Exchange users
When participating in a per-site meta, please participate accordingly the local workings and culture. On small sites, the moderators are those who can better guide you to learn, and update about this.
Report bug, make feature-request about stuff that is specific for the corresponding site, i.e., there are parts of the Tour, Help Center, Ask Question, among other that could be customized for each site. Here are some related posts about the elements that can be customized on per site:
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