On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Bob Ball <[email protected]> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: 28 August 2013 10:27 > > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:06:01PM +1000, Tom Fifield wrote: > > > TL;DR - Obsolete page on the wiki? Consider moving it to the > > > Obsolete namespace. > > > Alternative proposals and thoughts very welcome!! > > > > So I think a better option is to define an "Obsolete Content" > > template which would add a prominent banner across the top of the > > page which warns users that the content is out of date and asks > > for contributions to update it. > > I agree that using a template in this way would be better than moving > pages to the Obsolete namespace. > > I do think that we should have some automatic process to mark pages as > possibly obsolete as well. > > Perhaps we could make better use of the categories? My thoughts are > having a category for pages that will automatically be marked as obsolete, > a category for potentially obsolete pages, one for obsolete and another for > pages which will never be obsolete, or pages kept in that state for the > archive (e.g. blueprints). > > Each page could also have a designated owner who can be contacted when a > page is being considered for moving to the obsolete category - even if it's > just a comment at the bottom of the page, or another category - to give the > human review element. > > I'm not very familiar with mediawiki - but perhaps templates would be > better used for all of the above. > > One plus of using an Obsolete namespace is that it removes the pages from the default search results when searching in the wiki. Maybe a template that applies a "To be obsoleted' category + a bot that moves pages from the "To be obsoleted" category into the Obsolete namespace after a period of time would be better? I have a feeling that documents being moved into the Obsolete category are docs that will never be updated, though. My original recommendation was for them to just be deleted, so I think the current approach is more lenient. I guess I'm just a deletionist :). - Ryan
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