Hi Daniel,
I'm pretty sure I explicitly gave a process to
delete pages within the wiki community effort:
"A wiki is a community effort. Even if those
pages are out-of-date they might have information
that could be of use trying to work out the new
install directions or as a reference for older
linux systems."
"Once the replacement is in place and checked out,
then the old pages are fully deprecated and may be
deleted."
The reality is that the PDL project is very lightly
staffed (and not at all if staff means people who
get paid for the work). We don't have the edit
police tracking things as on wikipedia. In fact,
I don't even know what level of backup and restore
is or would be available.
--Chris
On 7/25/2010 6:03 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Chris Marshall<[email protected]> wrote:
>> A wiki is a community effort.
>
> That does not imply "no delete". People delete content from wiki pages
> regularly. For that matter, PDL is a community effort, but you are
> willing to delete lines and even files written by other people.
>
>> Even if those pages are out-of-date they might have information
>> that could be of use trying to work out the new install directions or
>> as a reference for older linux systems.
>
> Taking this attitude to the extreme of never deleting pages will only
> lead an immense collection of basically useless pages, cluttering the
> wiki and making useful information much harder to find. Look at how
> the wiki led me astray regarding support for Mac OS X. There is a
> point at which these things simply do more harm than good. And the Mac
> OS X page, for example, has zero useful content that is worth keeping.
> It's just two links for crying out loud, and they point to the wrong
> pages. Do you really think that someone is going use that page as a
> reference for something? And Edgy Eft has been unsupported for over 2
> years. And what is the sense in having pages specific to different
> versions of Ubuntu?
>
> Tell me something. If I write a page for every single version of
> Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora and Mandriva, and fill them with outdated
> information or information of no meaningful value, will you keep those
> pages forever? Can I spam-bomb the PDL wiki and you won't do anything
> to remove the useless content cluttering up the namespace?
As I allude to above, if someone were to adversely edit the wiki,
I don't know if recovery could or would be possible.
>> Once the replacement is in place and checked out, then the old pages are
>> fully
>> deprecated and may be deleted.
>
> What exactly do you want to see before you call a page deprecated?
>
> * I can copy and paste the content of the Windows page. Will that deprecate
> it?
>
> * I just added a section on Mac OS X. It has one link, and it is the
> correct link. Isn't that enough to deprecate the page on OS X?
>
> Daniel.
>
>
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