On 11/05/16 02:48, Dan Smith wrote:
Hmm... that's unfortunate, as we were trying to get some of our less
ephemeral items out of random etherpads and into the wiki (which has the
value of being google indexed).
Yeah, I'm kinda surprised anyone would consider a wiki-less world. I'm
definitely bummed at the thought of losing it.
The Google indexing is also what makes the wiki so painful... After 6
years most of the content there is inaccurate or outdated. It's a
massive effort to clean it up without breaking the Google juice, and
nobody has the universal knowledge to determine if pages are still
accurate or not. We are bitten every day by newcomers finding wrong
information on the wiki and acting using it. It's getting worse every
day we keep on using it.
Sure, I think we all feel the pain of the stale information on the wiki.
What if we were to do what we do for bug or review purges and make a
list of pages, in reverse order of how recently they've been updated?
Then we can have a few sprints to tag obviously outdated things to
purge, and perhaps some things that just need some freshening.
Here it is :)
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Special:AncientPages
MediaWiki also has some other useful tools installed by default:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages
There are also a series of plugins, such as the ones for "patrolling"
edits, and bots for mass updates and triggers that would potentially be
helpful.
There are a lot of nova-related things on the wiki that are the
prehistory equivalent of specs, most of which are very misleading to
people about the current state of things. I would think we could purge a
ton of stuff like that pretty quickly. I'll volunteer to review such a
list from the nova perspective.
* Deprecate the current wiki and start over with another wiki (with
stronger ACL support ?)
I'm somewhat surprised that this is an issue, because I thought that the
wiki requires an ubuntu login. Are spammers really getting ubuntu logins
so they can come over and deface our wiki?
--Dan
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